All Kimon Nicolaides Quotes
- Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely… Correctly
- The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. Able
- All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which… All
- Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot… Cannot Separate
- Art should be concerned more with life than with art. Art
- There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning. Beginning
- You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. All
- There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. All
- You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no… Act
- You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. Drawing
- 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… Cannot Make
- Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of… Contact
- When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is… Actualities
- Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. Causes
- To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... Inspirational