Fernand Leger Quotes

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

Live, Fire, Water

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.
Fernand Leger

Power, Give, Before

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Fernand Leger

Work, Value, Content

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

Truth, Painting, General

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.
Fernand Leger

Music, Art, Poetry

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: February 4, 1881

Died: August 17, 1955

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