Kimon Nicolaides Quotes

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.

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 technique from expression. There is only expression.

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.

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