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)
The true artist is not proud; he is aware that art has no limits.
I have been compelled to work hard; whoever works hard will achieve good things.
The artist's feeling is his law.
To practice art is to praise God.
The greatest danger for an artist is the admiration of the mediocre.
I have often lamented that I cannot draw my own portrait as I appear to myself.
Contemporaries of Albrecht Dürer
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).