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:

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

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

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

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

All about art...

Quotes about nature:

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

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

nature

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

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

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

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
Gérard de Nerval

All about nature...

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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