I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind. Leon Battista Alberti More Quotes by Leon Battista Alberti More Quotes From Leon Battista Alberti 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. Leon Battista Alberti painting alive divine Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. Leon Battista Alberti authority truth As ability goes, so goes our fortune. Leon Battista Alberti ability fortune The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. Leon Battista Alberti painting artist Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. Leon Battista Alberti divine-power alive doe The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. Leon Battista Alberti charm next color I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense. Leon Battista Alberti woods drawing trouble Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture. Leon Battista Alberti artist numbers order What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? Leon Battista Alberti painting mean art Buildings have been made because of man. Leon Battista Alberti building made men I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light. Leon Battista Alberti sculpture light hands I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline. Leon Battista Alberti portraiture faces art A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. Leon Battista Alberti dead painting force alive Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. Leon Battista Alberti without harmony change beauty Men can do all things if they will. Leon Battista Alberti will things all-things men
