Art Quote by Fernand Leger Download Open image “Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.” — Fernand Leger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Inspirational Learning Love Matter Understanding
Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself. — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. — Charles Rosin Copy Share Image
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
