Albrecht Durer

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

— Albrecht Durer

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done,…

— Albrecht Durer

“The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.”

— Albrecht Durer

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

— Albrecht Durer

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God…

— Albrecht Durer

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed…

— Albrecht Durer

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of…

— Albrecht Durer

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

— Albrecht Durer

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

— Albrecht Durer

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

— Albrecht Durer

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

— Albrecht Durer

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

— Albrecht Durer

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade…

— Albrecht Durer

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

— Albrecht Durer

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters…

— Albrecht Durer

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

— Albrecht Dürer

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

— Albrecht Durer

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of…

— Albrecht Durer

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is…

— Albrecht Durer

But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may…

— Albrecht Durer

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

— Albrecht Durer

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly…

— Albrecht Durer

“Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.”

— Albrecht Dürer

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

— Albrecht Durer