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“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.”

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Book:Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art
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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.”

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Book:Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art
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“The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.”

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Book:Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998
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“The 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.”

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