The compression of the modern picture, its variety, its breaking up of forms.... It is certain that the evolution of the means of locomotion and their speed have a great deal to do with the new way of seeing. Many superficial people raise the cry 'anarchy' in front of these pictures because they cannot follow the whole evolution of contemporary life that painting records.

in 'Functions of Painting by Fernand Leger'; p. 12 - Contemporary Achievements in Painting, Fernand Leger (1914)