Top 35 Quotes About the Famous Mona Lisa (PAINTING)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes About Mona Lisa (BEST)

“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.”
Walter Isaacson

The Mona Lisa is the most famous, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. - Kenneth Clark — The Mona Lisa is the most famous, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. – **Kenneth Clark**

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. - Max Lucado — **Da Vinci** painted one Mona Lisa. **Beethoven** composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. – **Max Lucado**

Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci — Art is never finished, only abandoned. – **Leonardo da Vinci**

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci — Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. – **Leonardo da Vinci**

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation. - Will Rogers — Mona Lisa is the only **beauty** who went through history and retained her reputation. – **Will Rogers**

It is a work beyond all critique and yet the whole world is permitted to criticize it. - Émile Zola — It is a work beyond all critique and yet the whole world is permitted to criticize it. – **Émile Zola**

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. - Louis Armstrong — A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. – **Louis Armstrong**

The Mona Lisa is beautiful, inexpressibly beautiful, and we stare at it, and she stares at us. - Katherine Anne Porter — The Mona Lisa is beautiful, inexpressibly beautiful, and we stare at it, and she stares at us. – Katherine Anne Porter

A good picture [referring to Mona Lisa painting] is equivalent to a good deed. - Vincent van Gogh — A good picture [referring to Mona Lisa painting] is equivalent to a good deed. – **Vincent van Gogh**

6 Funny Quotes About Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. I wonder what happened to them. - Salvador Dalí — Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. I wonder what happened to them. – **Salvador Dalí**

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. - Noel Coward — Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. – Noel Coward

She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave. - Mark Twain — She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave. – **Mark Twain**

The Mona Lisa is the world’s most overrated painting. It’s just a portrait of some Italian lady who probably had bad breath. - Jerry Seinfeld — The Mona Lisa is the world’s most overrated painting. It’s just a portrait of some Italian lady who probably had bad breath. – Jerry Seinfeld

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. - Bob Dylan — Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she **smiles**. – **Bob Dylan**

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. - Stephanie Perkins — If I had a euro for every stupid thing I’ve done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. – **Stephanie Perkins**

6 Inspirational Quotes About Mona Lisa

“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.”
Shahrukh Khan

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush. - Bob Ross — I really **believe** that if you practice enough you could paint the ‘Mona Lisa’ with a two-inch brush. – Bob Ross

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. - George Steinbrenner — Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. – **George Steinbrenner**

“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.”
Anne Lamott

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

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. - Dave Barry — 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. – Dave Barry

13 Deep Quotes About Mona Lisa that will Make You Think

“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.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. - William F. Buckley, Jr. — You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

A famous French painter once said that no work of art is ever finished, merely abandoned. I think the same can be said of people. Well, not the Mona Lisa, but the rest of us. - Sarah Ruhl — A famous French painter once said that no work of art is ever finished, merely abandoned. I think the same can be said of people. Well, not the Mona Lisa, but the rest of us. – Sarah Ruhl

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. - Pierre Boulez — 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. – Pierre Boulez

“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.”
Marcel Duchamp

That strange, enigmatic smile has always struck me as one of the greatest triumphs of human portraiture. - Kenneth Clark — That strange, enigmatic smile has always struck me as one of the greatest triumphs of human portraiture. – Kenneth Clark

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling. - Clive Rowe — You wouldn’t get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling. – Clive Rowe

“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.”
Stanley Kubrick