Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Leon Battista Alberti:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#202ef314

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
~Leon Battista Alberti


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#5345840b

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
~Leon Battista Alberti


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#74f096e8

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
~Leon Battista Alberti


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#baf02c01

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.
~Leon Battista Alberti


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#9f3aad15

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#fc6bd3be

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
~Leon Battista Alberti


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#6d1ecdb2

Men can do all things if they will.
~Leon Battista Alberti


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes/#7e34b213

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