6 Quotes By Albrecht Durer


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 on art

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

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 on beauty

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

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

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 on nature