Leone Battista Alberti Quotes
Leone Battista Alberti presents poetic, introspective ideas on life and success for anyone drawn to philosophical musings.
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Men can do all things if they will.
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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
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A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
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The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
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The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
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Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.
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It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
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A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.
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Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
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There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
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Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.