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  • Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

  • I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

    Add   Moustache   Enough  
    Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.481, Harvard University Press
  • My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  • Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company
  • . . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

  • Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

    Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
  • The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

  • 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.

    God   Spring   Creativity  
    1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.
  • I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

  • Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • 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.

    Echoes   Museums   Voice  
    Song: Visions of Johanna
  • Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

  • Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

    Song: Visions of Johanna
  • Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

    Art   Ideas   Form  
    "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.
  • I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.

    Fun   Cutting   Hair  
  • It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

    Art   Past   Doe  
    "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.
  • 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.

    Real   Men   Discovery  
    Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub
  • Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.

    Time   Thinking   Years  
  • Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

    1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.
  • I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

    Self   Two   Laughing  
    Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.488, Delacorte Press
  • I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

    Together   Hammers   Way  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
  • The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

  • Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

    Sick   Looks   Mona Lisa  
  • Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

    William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

    Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
  • Well, is it pornography or is it art? Well as far as I'm concerned, the Mona Lisa is art.

    Art   Mona Lisa   Wells  
  • A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

    Cat   People   Lines  
    Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).
  • Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

    Names   Wipe   Way  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company
  • You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

    Dabs   Paint   Accomplish  
    William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books
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