Quotes by 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.
• Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
• 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.