I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating it you personalize it. All this work has led me to regard the phenomenon of objectivity as a new and highly contemporary value in itself [quote of c. 1927].


'Autour de Ballet Méchanique', as quoted in Fernand Léger – The Later Years -, catalogue ed. Nicolas Serota; published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, pp. 21-22

Fernand Léger Quotes

I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating...

I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating...

I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating...

I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating...