"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."
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Walter Isaacson, as quoted in "What we can learn from Leonardo da Vinci's passion for both art and science" by Emily Donaldson, MacLean's (17 October 2017)
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