Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. - Kimon Nicolaides
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
- Kimon Nicolaides
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. - Kimon Nicolaides
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
Art should be concerned more with life than with art. - Kimon Nicolaides
Art should be concerned more with life than with art.
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
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…
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 no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.
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
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…
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
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…
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. - Kimon Nicolaides
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. - Kimon Nicolaides
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
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