Louvre Quotes
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Louvre Quotes & Sayings
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
— Alan Furst
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
— Steven Wright
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
— Milton Friedman
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.
— Neil MacGregor
I feel like I have the best job in the world.
— Bret Harrison
The Bible is more to be admired than the Louvre Museum, and the Gospel of John is perhaps its Mona Lisa.
— James M. Hamilton Jr.
Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.
— Dan Brown
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
— Neil Gaiman
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
— Idries Shah
Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.
— Anne Rice
Seeing America by bus is like touring the Louvre in a Porta Potti.
— Victor LaValle
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
— Paul Cezanne
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
— E. O. Wilson
Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.
— Elmer G. Leterman
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
— Tyra Banks
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
— William S. Burroughs
Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.
— Susan J. Douglas
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
— Paul Cezanne
I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
— Jemima West
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
— Alberto Giacometti
If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
— Helen Fisher
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
— John Oates