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
“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.” — 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,… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
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
