Leon Battista Alberti Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Practice, Reason

• Beauty is 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

  Beauty, Art, Design

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

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Inspirational, Art, Dedication

  Leon Battista Alberti, Renée Neu Watkins (1999). “The use and abuse of books”, Waveland Pr Inc

• 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

  Art, Portraiture, Faces

• 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

  Art, Black And White, Light

• What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Mean, Painting

  Leon Battista Alberti, Cecil Grayson (1972). “On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua”

• 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

  Art, Errors, Perfect

  Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.98, Yale University Press

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