Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Rico Lebrun

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Rico Lebrun

Rico (Federico) Lebrun was an Italian-American painter and sculptor.

December 10, 1900 - May 9, 1964
My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.
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.
You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence. — © Rico Lebrun
You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.
If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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