Quotes About Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#2. A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Albrecht Durer

#4. Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Durer

#5. 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 support himself and his wife and family.

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#7. 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 ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

Albrecht Durer

#8. But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.

Albrecht Durer

#9. Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Steven Moffat

#10. The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#14. 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 of art.

Albrecht Durer

#15. 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 of beauty.

Albrecht Durer

#16. Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Albrecht Durer

#17. Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Albrecht Durer

#18. Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.

Albrecht Durer

#19. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

Anonymous

#20. Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

Lucy Hale

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#24. Sam was your brother, and Trick was your friend, but what they did had nothing to do with you. You don't have to choose. Just because me and your dad couldn't live together, didn't mean you had to stop loving one of us, did it? Doesn't work like that. Love doesn't work like that.

C.J. Flood

#25. Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Albrecht Durer

#26. 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.

Albrecht Durer

#27. 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 from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Albrecht Durer

#28. 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.

Albrecht Durer