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Kimon Nicolaides was a Greek-born author active in the early 20th century. His works primarily focused on history, philosophy, and literary criticism. Despite his short life, Nicolaides' writings have had a profound impact on posterity.

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All Draws Drawing Should Technique Way Contact Enough Impulse Mean Objects Painting Senses Understanding Able Actuality Appropriate Art Bounds Can Do Causes

Famous Kimon Nicolaides Quotes

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

Way Objects Draws Drawing Senses Contact Right Way

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

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

Thinking Painting Drawing

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“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.”

Use Numbers Painting Drawing Symbols Appropriate Transfers Actuality Drawing And Painting

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“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.”

Ifs Way Needs Feelings Understanding Loses Seeing Fundamentals Bounds Technique Drawing Impulse Dependent Meaningless Diagrams New You

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

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Born: 1891
Died: 1938
Known for: Author
Quotes: 16

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