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Fernand Leger Quotes
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Artist Quotes
Category:
French Artist Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 4, 1881
Date of Death:
August 17, 1955
Nationality:
French
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Fernand Leger

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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

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

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

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

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



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