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Albrecht Durer Quotes



Quotes by Albrecht Durer - (7 quotes)

Albrecht Durer - From the Beauty category:

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. (Albrecht Durer)

Albrecht Durer - From the Creativity category:

From this [drawing], the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work. (Albrecht Durer)

Albrecht Durer - From the Joy category:

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)

Albrecht Durer - From the Models category:

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)

Albrecht Durer - From the Morality category:

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. (Albrecht Durer)

Albrecht Durer - From the Perfection category:

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. (Albrecht Durer)

Albrecht Durer - From the Simplicity category:

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)