Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

A man can do all things if he will.

- Leon Battista Alberti

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

- 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.

- Leon Battista Alberti

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

- Leon Battista Alberti

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

- 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 …

- Leon Battista Alberti

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

- Leon Battista Alberti

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

- Leon Battista Alberti