The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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
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
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
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.
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
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors …
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
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 …
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
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…
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life - Fernand Leger
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intention… - Fernand Leger
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intention…
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
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…
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
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…
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