Quotes by Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

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

Body

Movement

Soul

A man can do all things if he will.

Attitude

Men

Mindset

Buildings have been made because of man.

Building

Made

Men

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

Compounds

Errors

Models

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These… enable us to examine… the work as a whole… and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

Drawing

Trouble

Woods

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.

Art

Black And White

Light

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

Granted

Perfect

Produce

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Knows

Shameful

Teacher

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

Fortune

Men

Source

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Art

Dedication

Inspirational

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Beautiful

Black And White

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Building

Charm

Cities

Color

Compounds

Dedication

Distance

Divine

Divine Power

Doe

Drawing

Errors

Fortune

Function

God

Granted

House

Inspirational

Knows

Life

Light

Made

Mean

Men

Mindset

Models

Movement

Nature

Paint

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Perfect

Philosopher

Philosophy

Produce

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Shameful

Soul

Source

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Quotes by Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

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

A man can do all things if he will.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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.

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

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

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

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

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