Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges,… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
