Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

"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 in Force quotes.

"Men can do all things if they will."
-Leon Battista Alberti in Willpower quotes.

"A man can do all things if he but wills them."
-Leon Battista Alberti

"Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . ."
-Leon Battista Alberti

"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."
-Leon Battista Alberti