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

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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.

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Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. by Albrecht Durer

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happen... by Albrecht Durer

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

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Geometry is the foundation of all painting. by Albrecht Durer

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as we... by Albrecht Durer

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

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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.

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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must neve... by Albrecht Durer

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

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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.

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Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know t... by Albrecht Durer

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

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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.

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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion. by Albrecht Durer

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the... by Albrecht Durer

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

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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.

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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.

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Sight is the noblest sense of man. by Albrecht Durer

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

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

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

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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.

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