Fernand Leger Quotes

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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Fernand Leger Quotes

Type: Artist Quotes Category: French Artist Quotes Date of Birth: February 4, 1881 Date of Death: August 17, 1955 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Fernand Leger Related Authors: Paul Gauguin Marc Chagall Paul Cezanne Henri Matisse Claude Monet Edgar Degas Marcel Duchamp Edouard Manet Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	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