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“In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.”
― Erol Ozan

“(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,â€� Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“I’m glad you still have your survival instinct.â€�

“We’ve all got something.� I lift my fingertips to the exposed skin on my face. It’s colder than the night sea. Cupping my hands, I blow into them, let my breath warm my nose and cheeks. “I apparently still have a face, which is good.�

Holden vaults up onto the wooden platform and I step up after him. “That is good,� he says, pulling me in close. He lifts his gloved hands to my cheeks. “After all, this is one of my favorite faces.�

I scrunch my lips into a pretend pout. “One of?�

He grins. “Well, you know. I’m a sucker for the classics. Helen of Troy, the Mona Lisa, that—�

“Hey. The Mona Lisa isn’t even hot.� I give him a little shove away from me, toward the edge of the platform.

“Disagree,� Holden says. “She’s beautiful in her own way. That mischievous smile, those dark, soulful eyes, the way she—�

“Fine, whatever.� I cross my arms. “But I insist on being ranked above her.�

“Okay, okay,� Holden says. “Yours can be my second-favorite face . . . right after that guy from The Scream.� He pulls me in close again.

“You’re such an ass,� I say, as our lips touch.

Holden laughs. “My girl Mona Lisa would never be so rude.”
― Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces

“We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can’t understand all the fuss about Mona Lisa painting, everyone wondering why she’s not smiling, if she’s depressed or heartbroken. No, she was just normal!
Emotions are always extreme these days: you either have to be crying with laughter or crying in pain. No wonder water levels are rising. It’s not global warming, it’s all the tears from crying.”
― Karl Pilkington

“If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof”
― Jandy Nelson

“Beside him, very close beside him, was a gorgeous woman. She had masses of deep auburn hair and great violet eyes. She was not plump, yet she gave the impression of soft, rounded curves and comfortable hollows. She had an air of Mona Lisa, the Lady of Shalott. All her movements were slow with a lazy, languid indolence”
― Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

“Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.”
― Orson Scott Card, A War of Gifts

“That’s quite all right,â€� I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux.”
― Paul Murray

“But notwithstanding when Miss Price on the following Sunday offered to take him to the Louvre Philip accepted. She showed him Mona Lisa. He looked at it with a slight feeling of disappointment, but he had read till he knew by heart the jewelled words with which Walter Pater has added beauty to the most famous picture in the world; and these now he repeated to Miss Price. (311)”
― W Somerset Maugham

“I think if someone would be in the Louvre
who looks just like the Mona Lisa - the people wouldn’t care about her -
because the only thing they admire is the soul captured in the painting
not the body that is mortal.”
― Laura Chouette

“She was the world's best cook. Every night, she used to sing "Funiculi" while she fixed supper- puttanesca sauce, homemade bread, pasta she made every Wednesday. Rosa had loved nothing better than working side by side with her in the bright scrubbed kitchen in the house on Prospect Street, turning out fresh pasta, baking a calzone on a winter afternoon, adding a pinch of basil or fennel to the sauce. Most of all, Rosa could picture, like an inedible snapshot in her mind, Mamma standing at the sink and looking out the window, a soft, slightly mysterious smile on her face. Herr "Mona Lisa smile," Pop used to call it. Rosa didn't know about that. She had seen a postcard of the Mona Lisa and thought Mamma was way prettier.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“...These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is?”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“This is the Mona Lisa of paleontology.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“Duchamp stuck a moustache on the Mona Lisa, but he needed a Mona Lisa to stick the moustache on; and in order to deny that he was painting a pipe, Magritte had to paint a meticulously realistic pipe.”
― Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures

“The "Monalisa Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear to be always smiling.

When you look at the mouth you feel she looks sad, melancholic, and hostile. But when you look at the eyes you feel she is happy and cheerful.

Leonardo perfected the "sfumato technique," which translated literally from Italian means "vanished or evaporated." He created imperceptible transitions between light and shade, and sometimes between colors.

"Why the Silhouette?" appears as a simple story of a few individuals, but when you look at it from a distance, it appears to show you the philosophy of life.

I have tried to create imperceptible transitions between light and darkness and sometimes between colors.

Hope you see the illusion in "Why the Silhouette?”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear to be always smiling.

When you look at the mouth you feel she looks sad, melancholic, and hostile. But when you look at the eyes you feel she is happy and cheerful.

Leonardo perfected the "sfumato technique," which translated literally from Italian means "vanished or evaporated." He created imperceptible transitions between light and shade, and sometimes between colors.

"Why the Silhouette?" appears as a simple story of a few individuals, but when you look at it from a distance, it appears to show you the philosophy of life.

I have tried to create imperceptible transitions between light and darkness and sometimes between colors.

Hope you see the illusion in "Why the Silhouette?”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear to be always smiling.

When you look at her mouth you feel she looks sad, melancholic, and hostile. But when you look at her eyes you feel she is happy and cheerful.

Leonardo perfected the "sfumato technique," which translated literally from Italian means "vanished or evaporated." He created imperceptible transitions between light and shade, and sometimes between colors.

"Why the Silhouette?" appears as a simple story of a few individuals, but when you look at it from a distance, it appears to show you the philosophy of life.

I have tried to create imperceptible transitions between light and darkness and sometimes between colors.

Hope you see the illusion in "Why the Silhouette?”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“Constató que las razones del alma son inescrutables: él mismo amaba sin medida a una doncella que nunca se había percatado de su existencia, o que, si lo había hecho, lo ignoraba sin reparos.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“No era un hombre que creyese en la fortuna, ni tampoco en el numen o en las musas. Pensaba que la perseverancia era la virtud que permitía conquistar los ²õ³Ü±ðñ´Ç²õ.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“—No os preocupéis, las tormentas nunca son permanentes; allí donde parece que el sol no volverá a asomar, siempre un pequeño rayo nos devuelve la esperanza.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Al instante, la mujer se giró. En sus manos sujetaba un libro pequeño, entre cuyas páginas colocó un ±è²¹Ã±³Ü±ð±ô´Ç para señalizar el pasaje que leía. Extendió su mano para recibir la misiva.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Las dudas acribillaban su mente. Se decía que él no era un hombre agresivo, pero nadie conoce el í³¾±è±ð³Ù³Ü de su propia ³¦Ã³±ô±ð°ù²¹ hasta que el odio desencadena un ³¦¾±³¦±ôó²Ô.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Os merecéis una felicidad duradera. La dicha de un amor como el que ahora sentís suele ser ±ð´Úí³¾±ð°ù²¹, »å¾±´Úí³¦¾±±ô de atrapar entre los dedos.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Los sentimientos de los lauderos impregnan la esencia de los instrumentos al tallar la madera. Si eso era cierto, su creación iba a tener una voz temible, dado que el ³¦´Ç°ù²¹³úó²Ô del joven agonizaba.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Entre renglones se escondía de la »å¾±´Úí³¦¾±±ô realidad a la que tenía que enfrentarse, para guarecerse en los infinitos universos que las palabras erigían.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“La ³¾Ãº²õ¾±³¦²¹ enaltece el alma de quienes la interpretan y aviva los sentimientos de aquellos que la escuchan.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Era la única ²õ´Ç±ô³Ü³¦¾±Ã³²Ô para que mirara al futuro sin tropezar con el pasado.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“El azar nos mantiene por muy poco tiempo en el mismo lugar. La vida siempre vuelve a barajar las cartas.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“Sabía muy bien que, donde el ³¦´Ç°ù²¹³úó²Ô dicta su razón, la voluntad no atiende a la cordura.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.

“No lograba entender el significado exacto de las palabras que acababa de escuchar. Pero su ferviente ¾±³¾²¹²µ¾±²Ô²¹³¦¾±Ã³²Ô desató una tormenta que lo inundó de expectativas.”
― Artha Moreton, Las ±ôá²µ°ù¾±³¾²¹²õ de Mona Lisa: Una novela histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento italiano, que aborda la violencia doméstica.