Albrecht Dürer

Visual Arts German 1471 – 1528 386 quotes

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 Strasbourg, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Basel, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Colmar, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Frankfurt, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Mainz, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Cologne, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Letter to Willibald Pirckheimer 1506

I have also been to Antwerp, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Brussels, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Ghent, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Bruges, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Zeeland, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Holland, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Utrecht, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Amsterdam, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Haarlem, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Leiden, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Delft, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Gouda, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Rotterdam, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520

I have also been to Dordrecht, and have seen many beautiful things there.

Diary of the Journey to the Netherlands 1520