Alive Quote by Leon Battista Alberti Download Open image “Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.” — Leon Battista Alberti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Almost Contains Dead Divine Force Makes Painting Seem Which
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
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
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art,… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright 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
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
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
