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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
Art
Nature
Simplicity
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
Albrecht Durer
Art
Geometry
Painting
Principles
Right
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
Christ
Help
Madness
May
Voice
World
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
Art
Evil
Man
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer
Family
Life
Father
Wife
Support
Trade
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer
Knowledge
Care
Diligence
Judgment
Nothing
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer
Beauty
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Albrecht Durer
God
Talent
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer
Beauty
Earth
Man