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Copperplate Engraver Inspirational Quotes (34)

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Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.
Albrecht Durer
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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer
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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
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Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
Albrecht Durer
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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer
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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
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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.
Albrecht Durer
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
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If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.
Pierre Soulages
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Sight is the noblest sense of man.
Albrecht Durer
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But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.
Albrecht Durer
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Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.
Pierre Soulages
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I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.
Pierre Soulages
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Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Albrecht Durer
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What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer
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At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.
Pierre Soulages
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The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
Albrecht Durer
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer
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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
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Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.
Pierre Soulages
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I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
Pierre Soulages
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Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
Albrecht Durer
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Albrecht Durer
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