Durer Art Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I've had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved Aubrey Beardsley when I was a student, and then Edmund Dulac and other Golden Age illustrators made a big impact, as well as Victorian painters like Richard Dadd and Edward Burne-Jones. My long-term heroes though are Albretch Durer, Brueghel, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Turner and Degas. What most of them have in common is brilliant draughtsmanship and a strong linear or graphic quality. Most are also printmakers. The one I keep going back to and who fascinates me the most is JMW Turner, the greatest watercolourist. — Alan Lee

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

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. — Albrecht Durer

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 Durer

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. — Albrecht Durer

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. — Albrecht Durer

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