ALBRECHT DURER

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.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

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.

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

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

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

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

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.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

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.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.