Fernand Leger Quotes

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Art matters.

In art economy is always beauty.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.