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kimon nicolaides
the natural way to draw Merely to see ... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible – and especially through the sense of touch. You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space. There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. A contour drawing is like climbing a mountain rather than flying over it in an airplane. Seeing spaces can free us from deadly assumptions.
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate
obstacles and smooth the way for it.
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