Leon Battista Alberti

“Men are not born to rot in idleness, but to be employed in works of magnificence and excellence.”

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

“A man can do all things if he will.”

“Beauty is the harmony of all parts in whatsoever subject it appears, fitted together with such proportion and connection, that nothing could be added, diminished or altered, but for the worse.”

“Let no one believe that he can be a good architect, who is not a great scholar.”

“We painters want to be able to convince the viewer that what he is seeing is real.”

“The artist in painting is a creator.”

“To you I award the prize, O king, and I confess that you have conquered.”