The time of the often criticized art without real subject [l'art pour l'art] and the art without object [Abstract art] seems to be over. We are experiencing a new return to the meaningful subject, which the common people can understand

Fernand Léger - The Later Years -, catalogue edited by Nicolas Serota, published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, p. 12