Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 May 1471
CityNuremberg, Germany
Albrecht Durer quotes about
art statistics foundation
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. . .
art joy would-be
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.
artist public-opinion overwhelmed
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
nature art embedded
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
art mathematics logical
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
art men years
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.
art simplicity form
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.
art simplicity simplicity-in-art
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
art men evil
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
father wife support
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.
beautiful men giving
There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.
jesus fall voice
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.
men perfection form
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
men sight vision
Sight is the noblest sense of man.