Famous Quotes

"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 on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Albrecht Durer

• "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."

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

• "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."

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

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