Rico Lebrun quotes
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“If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.”
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“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 LebrunSource : University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.”
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“You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.”
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“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.”
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“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 LebrunSource : University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
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“I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.”
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