Quotes About Durer

#1. Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Martin Luther

#2. Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this

Marianne Moore

#3. 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

#4. The greatest donation that you can give in life is the donation of unconditional love.

Debasish Mridha

#5. In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

David Hasselhoff

#6. The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.

Pierce Brosnan

#7. No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Mason Cooley

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

Albrecht Durer

#9. 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

#10. Time is a racehorse, eating up the furlongs as it gallops towards the finish line. Look away for a moment, be preoccupied for a moment, and then imagine what has passed you by.

William Boyd

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Albrecht Durer

#16. 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

#17. One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Idries Shah

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

Albrecht Durer

#19. The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Pope John Paul II

#20. 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

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

Albrecht Durer

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Albrecht Durer

#27. What happens when you shut your eyes?
The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear.
See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

J.R. Rim

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

Albrecht Durer

#29. I wanted to share the realities of living with a disability since birth. My book is my attempt to promote increased inclusion and greater understanding of individual abilities

Stephanie Torreno

#30. I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Sigourney Weaver

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

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer

#33. When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Abraham Verghese

#34. Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.

Chris Matakas

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

Albrecht Durer

#36. Allowing yourself to be a conduit
for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune
cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown
saying, she has rarely been known to knock

Chris Murray

#37. Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Albrecht Durer

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

Albrecht Durer