Albrecht Durer Art Quotations

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

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.

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

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

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

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

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.