Top 30 O.a. Battista Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
Leon Battista Alberti
#3. 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
#4. 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
#7. One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#9. One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#10. 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
#11. It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Leon Battista Alberti
#13. I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ...
Leon Battista Alberti
#14. 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
#15. 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
#19. The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#20. You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out.
Jeanette Battista
#23. 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
#24. 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
#28. 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
#30. We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti
