Granted Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

“It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.”

Leon Battista Alberti

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

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The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to…

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The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

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Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

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A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from…

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

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Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

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There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and…

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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

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It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

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Everyday is a gift never take it for granted.

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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to…

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

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