A man can do all things if he will.

- Leon Battista Alberti

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

- Leon Battista Alberti

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

- 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

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

- Leon Battista Alberti

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

- 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

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

- Leon Battista Alberti