Kimon Nicolaides

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is,…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal…

— Kimon Nicolaides

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of…

— Kimon Nicolaides

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

— Kimon Nicolaides

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

— Kimon Nicolaides

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

— Kimon Nicolaides

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

— Kimon Nicolaides

When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities.…

— Kimon Nicolaides

“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.”

— Kimon Nicolaides

Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

— Kimon Nicolaides