Leon Battista Alberti Quotes About Painting

• I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

  León Battista Alberti

  Appreciation, Perfect, Mind

  Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.66, Yale University Press

• The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

  León Battista Alberti

  Artista, Pintura

• Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

  León Battista Alberti

  Doe, Alive, Divine Power

• Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

  León Battista Alberti

  Alive, Painting, Divine

• 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.

  León Battista Alberti

  Art, Black And White, Light

• I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

  León Battista Alberti

  Light, Hands, Sculpture

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

• ¿Qué es la pintura sino el acto de abrazar, por medio del arte, la superficie del estanque?

  León 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”

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