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

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Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kimon Nicolaides

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“Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.”
“If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.”
“Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go backâ€¦to Dhoni.”
“This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.”
“It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people-risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest.”
“There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.”
“My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.”
“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

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