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The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
— Robert Breault
My books have always been safe spaces, sanctuaries for Queer folk, first and foremost, but all are welcome.
— Andrew Demcak
The movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
— John Henry Newman
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Painting contains a divine force which ... makes the dead seem almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he will.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
— Leon Battista Alberti
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ...
— Leon Battista Alberti
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
— Leon Battista Alberti
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.
— Leon Battista Alberti
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
— Stephane Mallarme
Men can do all things if they will.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A person can do anything if they only will it strongly enough.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
— Leon Battista Alberti
If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough
— Ramit Sethi
Buildings have been made because of man.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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
As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
— Leon Battista Alberti
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
— Leon Battista Alberti
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
— Leon Battista Alberti