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Leon Battista Alberti - From the Appreciation category:
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind... (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Colour category:
The picture will have charm when each colour is very unlike the one next to it. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Colour category:
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Drawing category:
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Immortality category:
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)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Mistakes category:
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Philosophy category:
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Portraiture category:
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline. (Leon Battista Alberti)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Tones category:
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)
Leon Battista Alberti - From the Universe category:
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. (Leon Battista Alberti)
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