It is a true, incorruptible purism... It is a religion that cannot be argued about. It has its saints, its disciples and its heretics. Modern life with its speed and tumult, dynamic and full of contrasts, beats furiously against this light, luminous, delicate structure, which emerges coldly from the chaos. Do not touch it, it is an accomplished fact. It had to be, it is there to stay.

Fernand Leger, artist quotes & notes on Cubism and painting art: Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., 1964, p. 33