Albrecht Dürer Quotes

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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 Dürer

Whoever … proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.

Albrecht Dürer

The new art must be based upon science — in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Albrecht Dürer

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better teachers of the Art of Painting than compulsion is.

Albrecht Dürer

Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Dürer

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

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Born: May 21, 1471

Died: April 6, 1528 (aged 56)

Bio: Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.

Known for:

Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515)
Melancholia I (1514)
Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty Eight (1500)
Adam and Eve (1507)
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

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