Fernand Leger Quotes - click name for biography
· Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
- Fernand Leger
· As long as the human body is considered a sentimental or expressive value in painting, no evolution in picture of people will be possible. Its development has been hindered by the domination of the subject over the ages.
- Fernand Leger
· Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
- Fernand Leger
· 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
· The object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. If, in turn, the human form becomes an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist.
- Fernand Leger
· In contemporary modern painting, the object must become the leading character and dethrone the subject. Then, in turn, if the person, the face, and the human body become objects, the modern artist will be offered considerable freedom.
- Fernand Leger
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