O.a. Battista Quotes & Sayings

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. — Leon Battista Alberti

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out. — Jeanette Battista

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — 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

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body ... a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl'd water, tinctur'd with soot ... Death took place ... In the stomach ... was an ulcerated cancerous tumour ... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ'd in the stomach. — Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti

I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light. — Leon Battista Alberti

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes. — 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

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

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi

Painting contains a divine force which ... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti

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

True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

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

Moral certainty is never more than probability. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria

It is an important matter to train the voice in flexibility. Even voices which are naturally rebellious and heavy are sure to gain by it in mellowness and beauty. — Giovanni Battista Lamperti

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Buildings have been made because of man. — Leon Battista Alberti

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Far worse it is
To lose than never to have tasted bliss. — Giovanni Battista Guarini

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. — Victoria Abril

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture. — Leon Battista Alberti

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti