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Quote by Albrecht Durer
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on t

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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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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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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The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing. – Jerry Saltz

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