Rico Lebrun famous quotes

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 #Fundamentals

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

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

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

#Cutting #Essence #Simplify

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

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

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.