Actuality Quote by Kimon Nicolaides

“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 true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.”

Kimon Nicolaides

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