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

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

- Albrecht Durer

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

- Albrecht Durer

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

- Albrecht Durer

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, w…

- Albrecht Durer

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

- Albrecht Durer

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

- Albrecht Durer

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

- Albrecht Durer

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

- Albrecht Durer