Dürer on Extracting Art from Nature

Albrecht Dürer, das große Rasenstück (1503)

Denn wahrhaftig steckt die Kunst in der Natur, wer sie heraus kann reißen, der hat sie.

Truly art is firmly fixed in Nature. He who can extract her thence, he alone has her.

–Albrecht Dürer, Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528)(S.H. transl.)

Title page to the book from which the quote derives. It reads: Herein are comprehended four books on human proportion/conceived and described by Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg/for the use of all who love art/1528.