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I wanted to proclaim a return to simplicity by ways of an immediate art without any subtlety, comprehensible to all. I love (Louis ) David, because he is so anti-impressionist.. ..I love the dryness in his work and also in that of Ingres. That was my way, and it touched me, instantly.
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Kunst und Zeugnis, Dora Vallier, Zürich 1967, p. 62

 

Fernand Leger

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