Fernand Leger

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

— Fernand Leger

#element #fire #just #live #man

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

#before #enlargements #enormous #entirely #fragment

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

— Fernand Leger

#content #independent #properties #realistic #terms

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

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting