Quotes from Fernand Leger

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

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.

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

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

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.

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.

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

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

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.