Quote of Albrecht Dürer - Truly, art is embedded in nature...

Biography - Albrecht Dürer:

German painter, printmaker and theorist.
Born: 1471 - Died: 1528
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

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Translation

(German, French)

Denn wahrhaftig steckt die Kunst in der Natur. Wer sie heraus kann reißen, der hat sie.”
Albrecht Dürer

Car, en vérité, l'art y est, dans la nature, et celui qui d'un trait peut l'en faire sortir, il le tient.”
Albrecht Dürer

Quotes about art:

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Frédéric Chopin

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Quotes about nature:

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

Nature does nothing in vain.”
Aristotle

nature

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Albrecht Dürer also said...

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion

What beauty is, I know not.”
Albrecht Dürer

beauty

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 Dürer

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

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 Dürer

beauty

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

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