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Kimon Nicolaides has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal…
• The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
• All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is,…
• Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an…
• Art should be concerned more with life than with art.
• There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.
• You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
• There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
• You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no…
• You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.
• Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of…
• Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through…

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