Mona Quotes

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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.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

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

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

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.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

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

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

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

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.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

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

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.

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.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

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.

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.

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.

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

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.

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?

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

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87