Albrecht Durer Quotes

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

I had had no art training.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.