15 Quotes by 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 technique from expression. There is only expression.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

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

This book was written to be used. It is not meant simply to be read any more than you would sit down to read through an arithmetic book without any attempt to work out the problems it describes.