Rico Lebrun Quotes & Sayings

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

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence. — Rico Lebrun

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

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

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

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion. — Rico Lebrun

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

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