Fernand Leger Quotes

France, Artist
February 4, 1881 – August, 17, 1955.

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.

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

Fernand Leger
- Work
- Value
- Independent
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Fernand Leger
- Live
- Man
- Water

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.

Fernand Leger
- Music
- Art
- Beautiful
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

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.

Fernand Leger
- Power
- Never
- Personality