Quotes by Albrecht Durer - Page 1

Sight is the noblest sense of man.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Men
Sight
Vision
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Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Foundation
Math
Teaching
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Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Art
Simplicity
Simplicity In Art
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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Teacher
Compulsion
Delight
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What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Beauty
Imperfect
Knows
Things
Many
Though
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Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Art
Nature
Embedded
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Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Knows
Thinking
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Beauty
Men
Form
Perfection
Contained
Hold
Sum
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Blessing
Curse
Given
Magnificent
Talent
God Great Me
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Art
Men
Avoided
Evil
Happens
Idle
Himself
Otherwise
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Artist
Chosen
Opinion
Overwhelmed
Public Opinion
Commands
Fulfill
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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 / Artist
Men
Beautiful
Giving
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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 / Artist
Beauty
Men
Earth
Perfect
Single
Single Man
Taken
Endowed
Figure
Model
Man Lives
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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Knowledge
Care
Diligence
Judgment
Plenty
Sane
Technical Knowledge
Picture
Abhors
Although
Technical
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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 / Artist
Art
Joy
Would Be
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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 / Artist
Art
Adornment
Form
Genuine
Simplicity
Much
Greatest
Forms
Older
Insist
Realized
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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 / Artist
Decided
Foundation
Geometry
Painting
Principles
Teach
Youngsters
Since
Eager
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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 / Artist
Art
Logical
Mathematics
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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 / Artist
Jesus
Christ
Fall
Jesus Christ
Lord
Lord Jesus Christ
Madness
Voice
May World Your
Lord Jesus
Recognize
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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 / Artist
Art
Foundation
Math
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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 / Artist
Father
Resources
Support
Trade
Wife
Life Family Wife
Suffered
Painfully
Proceeds
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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 / Artist
Beautiful
Humble
Lying
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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 / Artist
Errors
Light
Mean
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An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.
Albrecht Durer / Artist
Art
Men
Years
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