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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

- 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

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

- 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

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

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

- Kimon Nicolaides

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

- Kimon Nicolaides