Rico Lebrun Quotes

#1. I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

Rico Lebrun

#2. If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

Rico Lebrun

#3. Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

Rico Lebrun

#4. My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

Rico Lebrun

#5. Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously.

Rico Lebrun

#6. You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

Rico Lebrun

#7. I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

Rico Lebrun

#8. Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings ... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition ... I do not believe ... that this belittles my own personality.

Rico Lebrun