About Kimon Nicolaides: Kimon Nicola?des was a Greek, American art teacher, author and artist. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army in France as a camouflage artist.
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,...
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
