Albrecht Dürer
Greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance
Most quoted
"A good painter is inwardly full of figures, and if it were possible that he live forever, he would always have from his internal ideas, of which Plato writes, something new to pour out in his works."
— from Writings
"For a good painter is inwardly full of figures, and if it were possible that he live forever, he would always have from his internal ideas something new to pour out in his works."
— from Four Books on Human Proportion, 1528
"The more I travel, the more I realize that people are the same everywhere, they just wear different clothes and speak different languages, but they all want a good portrait."
— from Letters and Diaries
All quotes by Albrecht Dürer (386)
I have also been to Breda, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to 's-Hertogenbosch, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Mechelen, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Louvain, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Liège, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Aachen, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Trier, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Coblenz, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Worms, and have seen many beautiful things there.
I have also been to Speyer, and have seen many beautiful things there.
For art is hidden in nature, and he who can draw it out, he has it.
A good painter is full of inward art, and if he is to paint well, he must have a good understanding of nature.
The more accurately you can measure, the better you will draw.
No one can be a good master who has not first been a good pupil.
The true art is to make things appear as they are, and not as they are not.
Life is a journey, and art is a way of understanding it.
I hold that the more exactly a man can draw, the better he will be able to paint.
The artist is not a servant of nature, but its master.
Art is a reflection of the soul.
The greatest artist is he who can best express his inner vision.
Contemporaries of Albrecht Dürer
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).