Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye - all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.
If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.
I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.
You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.
Well, is it pornography or is it art? Well as far as I'm concerned, the Mona Lisa is art.
The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.
Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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