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Albrecht Dürer

Quote of Albrecht Dürer - What beauty is, I know not...


Biography - Albrecht Dürer:

German painter, printmaker and theorist.
Born: 1471 - Died: 1528
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.



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Quotes for: beauty


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Quotes about beauty:


All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





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











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Albrecht Dürer also said...


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





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





What beauty is, I know not.





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.





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.





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












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