Top 65 Battista Quotes
#1. My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril
#5. 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
#7. It is an important matter to train the voice in flexibility. Even voices which are naturally rebellious and heavy are sure to gain by it in mellowness and beauty.
Giovanni Battista Lamperti
#10. 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
#15. One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#17. The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#20. Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#21. It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
Leon Battista Alberti
#22. Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
#24. And since Rebecca already placed your order five minutes ago, I can only assume that this was an excuse to check out my rack. All done?
Jeanette Battista
#25. 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
#27. Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#29. A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
Leon Battista Alberti
#32. Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#33. Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#34. For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
#36. We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti
#38. You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#42. 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
#43. The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself.
Leon Battista Alberti
#46. You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out.
Jeanette Battista
#47. The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#51. 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.
Leon Battista Alberti
#52. 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
#53. I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ...
Leon Battista Alberti
#55. It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Leon Battista Alberti
#56. 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
#57. One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#59. One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#62. 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.
Leon Battista Alberti
#63. 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
#64. Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
Leon Battista Alberti
#65. The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
Leon Battista Alberti
