Fernand Leger Quotes

I need music like I need water.

The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Life is the most important. Always.

Water is the best of all things.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Without rain, there is no life.

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water

Without rain, there would be no life.

The Left needs causes like fish need water

Without me there could be no everybody.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

Only a few things are really important.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!