“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.” DifferentLightSeemsDarkColorObviousStrikesColourShadeVary Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“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.” ArtSeemsFacesProjectsPraiseOutlinesCensurePortraiture Author: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.” LifeGodSeemsScienceForceHeavenPlanetsDiscovery Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.” SeemsForceAliveDivinePainting Author:Leon Battista Alberti
