I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — 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 the body… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
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 Image
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
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 Image
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — 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 new and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
