Top 8 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Rico Lebrun

Passion, Emotion, Motivated

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

Rico Lebrun

Artist, Periods, Entertainers

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”

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

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