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Leon Battista Alberti
When I investigate...
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly...
Painting is possessed...
Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many...
We must always...
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Beauty - the...
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing...
A man can...
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Source: In The Book of Success, ed....