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

- 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 easi…

- 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 cons…

- Rico Lebrun

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

- Rico Lebrun

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

- 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, …

- Rico Lebrun

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 …

- Rico Lebrun