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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…

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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it…
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million…
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to…
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the…
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least…
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful…
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do…
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say…
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in…

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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. — Mac O'Grady
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the… — Prince Charles
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw.… — Charles Michael Davis
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. — Noel Coward
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept.… — Sol LeWitt
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past… — Pierre Boulez
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. — Pierre Boulez
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be… — Armistead Maupin

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