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I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Other, Before, Examine, Architects

Men can do all things if they will.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Men, Will, Things, All Things

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Man, Things, Them, All Things

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty, Harmony, Add, Subtract

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

Science, Living, Discover, Planets

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Always, Most, Take, Beautiful Things

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Painting, Alive, Which, Contains

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

- Leon Battista Alberti

City, Small, Like, House

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