Rico Lebrun Quotes

• 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

  Drawing, Doe, Enough

  7 Copy quote

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

  Rico Lebrun

  Passion, Emotion, Motivated

  7 Copy quote

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

  Rico Lebrun

  Artist, Periods, Entertainers

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Drawing, Design, Woven

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Believe, Moving, Personality

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Drawing, Vision, Acquiescence

  7 Copy quote

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

  Rico Lebrun

  Cutting, Essence, Simplify

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Facts, Theme, Obligation

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

  7 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin