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

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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'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

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

- 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

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

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

- Leon Battista Alberti

A man can do all things if he will.

- 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