“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.””
Quotes by Albrecht Dürer
“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, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.””
“Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.””
“Uticaji Rafaela iz Urbina raspršili su se na sve strane posle njegove smrti, ali jedan od njegovih učenika, po imenu Tomazo iz Bolonje, dobar slikar, poželeo je da me upozna pa je došao i poklonio mi zlatan prsten, antikvitet s lepo izrezanim kamenom vrednik 5 florina, ali ja sam već dobio dvostruko veću ponudu za isti taj prsten; za uzvrat, poklonio sam mu najbolje gravure, vredne 6 florina.U ponedeljak, posle Aranđelovdana, 1520, Tomazu iz Bolonje dao celu zbirku otisaka da, za moj račun, otpremi u Rim jednom drugom slikaru, koji će mi za uzvrat poslati Rafaelov rad.””
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the Renaissance, renowned for his mastery of both woodcut and engraving techniques. Born in Nuremberg, he was the son of a goldsmith an...