The Louvre Quotes

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. — Neil MacGregor

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. — Jean Cocteau

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.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. — Tyra Banks

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

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. — Chuck Palahniuk

I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around. — Jemima West

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. — Paul Cezanne

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

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

Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all. — Anne Rice

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. — Paul Cezanne

Seeing America by bus is like touring the Louvre in a Porta Potti. — Victor LaValle

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

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