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Albrecht Dürer

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Biography - Albrecht Dürer:

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

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion



Note 

Note




Source: Four Books of Human Proportion

Internet Archive - Dürer - Vier Bucher von menschlicher Proportion (de) 



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

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Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Denn wahrhaftig steckt die Kunst in der Natur. Wer sie heraus kann reißen, der hat sie.
Albrecht Dürer - Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion

French
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 - Traité des proportions du corps humain



See also 

See also...



Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

Nature is truth. Art is the highest truth.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The mission of art is not to copy nature, but to express it!
Honore de Balzac

Art is the transition from nature to education, and from education to nature.
Friedrich Hölderlin



Quotes for: art


Quotes

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 for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


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





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 / 





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 never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 






All about nature...




Quotes

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 / 





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





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





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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