Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Where this quote comes from
Dürer wrote this in his treatise on measurement with compass and ruler, published in 1525. He goes on to explain why careful but untrained painters cannot see their mistakes: they never learned geometry, without which nobody can become a complete artist. He places the blame on their masters, who did not know geometry either.
Source: The Art of Measurement (1525)
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