I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
A man can do all things if he will. - Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he will.
- Leon Battista Alberti
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. - Leon Battista Alberti
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.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind. - Leon Battista Alberti
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. - Leon Battista Alberti
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. - Leon Battista Alberti
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. - Leon Battista Alberti
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
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 … - Leon Battista Alberti
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 …
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
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. - Leon Battista Alberti
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
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