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I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

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

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What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

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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.

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It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

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Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti
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Born: February 14, 1404
Died: April 25, 1472 (aged 68)
Bio: Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man.
Known for:
  1. Palazzo Rucellai
  2. Santa Maria Novella
  3. Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
  4. Tempio Malatestiano
  5. San Sebastiano

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