Leon Battista Alberti Quotes about Art

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

Beauty is 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

Beauty, Art, Design

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Leon Battista Alberti

Art, Practice, Reason

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Leon Battista Alberti

Inspirational, Art, Dedication

Leon Battista Alberti, Renée Neu Watkins (1999). “The use and abuse of books”, Waveland Pr Inc

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

Art, Errors, Perfect

Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.98, Yale University Press

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

Art, Black And White, Light

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.

Leon Battista Alberti

Art, Portraiture, Faces