He was an extraordinary artist.
The first big name that one should get excited about.
He stands alone, really.
You really wonder how a human hand can do that.
There is nothing like those two in the entire history of art.
For him, creativity was everything.
Quite remarkable.
And has inspired people ever since.
Oh, yeah, that's Dürer, he made that.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent?
People tended to put artists
into categories, but Dürer put it all together.
The first self-portrait.
The first portrait of an animal.
The first realistic landscape drawings.
There's a lot of different genres and styles.
And yet once you've been alerted to him,
you suddenly begin to see affinities between the works.
Dürer has been interested in nearly everything.
He really built up an encyclopaedia of his own time.
So many of his works are about capturing that human aspect.
What makes us all human.
He determined on making his name and his fortune through prints.
Dürer was using the latest skills of his age
to produce images that had never been seen before
The effects of light pooling through a window.
Comets travelling through the sky.
The idea of publishing and distributing art is a very new thing.
Dürer started this whole idea, really.
He, in a sense, is one of the first celebrity artists
and that does come down to his monogram.
He put it on absolutely everything that he produced.
He crossed borders, he crossed boundaries, but he also travelled in his imagination.
He set off over the Alps to Italy, and he seems to have reached Venice.
And in the last part of his career,
he travelled up the River Rhine to the Low Countries.
We possess letters, we have a diary,
an account book that also chronicles his experiences while he's travelling.
We all yelled for help, but no one would risk coming to our rescue.
We were in fear and peril,
for the wind was strong and there were not more than six of us aboard.
He writes, he thinks and he dreams.
I saw this vision in my sleep.
In my terror, when I awoke, my whole body was trembling.
And it took a long time before I properly recovered myself.
Dürer is one of those rare artists who was
famous in his own time, is famous today, and whose fame has never really wavered.
It is extraordinary thinking about how many people owned a print by Dürer.
People don't realise quite how much he's
in the universe, until they realise, you know, oh, it's that guy.
Dürer's style and his technique are very, very relevant today.
You put a Dürer print in front of almost
any contemporary artist, they would still be amazed at what they were looking at.
That quiet, unseen, invisible imprint of his signature on my life
is unmistakeable, certainly for me and will remain.
He is someone who is exceptional at this
time and has inspired people all over the world ever since.