Author: Leon Battista Alberti

Quotes

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

- Leon Battista Alberti

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.

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

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

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

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

- Leon Battista Alberti

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