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Quotes "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."

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

"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."

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

"I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray."




Fernand Leger