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Fernand Leger
French
Artist
About the author
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,
French
Artist
#Power
#Personality
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
Fernand Leger,
French
Artist
#Man
#Needs
#Fire
#Water
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Fernand Leger,
French
Artist
#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,
French
Artist
#Understanding
#Truth
#Painting
#Validity
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,
French
Artist
#Art
#Question
#Music
#Poetry