Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

- Fernand Leger

The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existen…

- Fernand Leger

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors …

- 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 …

- Fernand Leger

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because the…

- Fernand Leger

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

- Fernand Leger

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intention…

- 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 someth…

- Fernand Leger

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century liv…

- Fernand Leger