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Kimon Nicolaides - From the Art category:
Art should be concerned more with life than with art. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Beginning category:
There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Creativity category:
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Drawing category:
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Drawing category:
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. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Mistakes category:
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Movement category:
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 the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Painting category:
You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Rules category:
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 draw. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Senses category:
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 possible – and especially through the sense of touch. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Symbols category:
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)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Technique category:
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. (Kimon Nicolaides)
Kimon Nicolaides - From the Theory category:
To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... (Kimon Nicolaides)
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