Albrecht Durer Quotes

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• Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
• And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.…
• Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the…
• The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
• No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole…
• Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
• I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
• Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
• Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
• Sight is the noblest sense of man.
• My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to…
• Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
• Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away…
• He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
• As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment…
• What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
• If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

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