Leon Battista Alberti Quotes - Page 2

• Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.

  León Battista Alberti

  Artist, Order, Numbers

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

  León Battista Alberti

  Color, Next, Charm

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• Buildings have been made because of man.

  León Battista Alberti

  Men, Building, Made

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• 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.

  León Battista Alberti

  Art, Portraiture, Faces

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• 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).

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• ¿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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• 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

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• 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.

  León Battista Alberti

  Drawing, Woods, Trouble

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