Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Albrecht Dürer
6 quotes
“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 Dürer (1471–1528) first seen 1525 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art of Measurement (1525).
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.”
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) first seen 1525 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art of Measurement (1525).
“Whoever … proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.”
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) first seen 1528 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528).
“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 Dürer (1471–1528) said by 1528 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The opening quotation of Introduction, Conjectures and refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Popper (1963).
“The new art must be based upon science — in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.”
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) said by 1528 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970 - 1990) edited by M Steck.
“There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.”
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) said by 1528 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mathematics, Education and Philosophy: An International Perspective (1994) by Paul Ernest