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“The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.” quote by Kimon Nicolaides — Download Open image

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

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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…

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

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Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

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

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

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

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