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

~Fernand Leger

Topics: Colour Element Fire Just Live Man Man Needs Necessary Needs Water

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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

Topics: Become Before Enormous Entirely Fragment Give Had Lyric Never New Object Personality Plastic Power Vehicle Way

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

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Topics: Content Independent Properties Realistic Terms Value Work

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

~Fernand Leger

Topics: Assume Axiom Dogma General Must Painting Recognized Truth Understanding Validity

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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

Topics: Any Anything Art Beautiful Does Dramatic Making Matter Means Moving Music Never Plastic Poetry Question Represent Representing Same Same Thing Something Thing

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: February 4th, 1881

Died: August 17th, 1955

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