Awful Quote by E. J. Hughes

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she…

— Stanley Kubrick

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be…

— Pierre Boulez

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo…

— Walter Isaacson

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

— Paulo Coelho

“Art—at least great art—by its very nature has varying levels, or layers, of meaning. In fact, a masterpiece comes to be considered a masterpiece…

— Benjamin Blech

“There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona Lisa, much…

— Walter Isaacson

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

— Alan Bean

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

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation…

— Walter Isaacson