Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
Fernand LegerThis truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
Fernand LegerThe realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Fernand LegerThe feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
Fernand Leger