Fernand Leger Quotes

#1. Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

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#2. What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

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#3. The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

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#4. Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

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#5. I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

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#6. Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

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#7. Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

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#8. Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

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#9. 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 room or in the official museums.

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#10. Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

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#11. The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

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#12. A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

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#13. This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

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