Albrecht Durer Quotes

» 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.

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

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

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

» 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.

» 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.

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