Kimon Nicolaides Quotes

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.

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

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary ...

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.

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

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

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.