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

- Kimon Nicolaides

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 enables a student to d…

- Kimon Nicolaides

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

- Kimon Nicolaides

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 separate…

- Kimon Nicolaides

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 forms. The forms are in …

- 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

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

- Kimon Nicolaides

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 the senses as po…

- Kimon Nicolaides

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

- Kimon Nicolaides