The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind... — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share
