Louvre Quotes

Louvre Quote of the day

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.

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

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

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

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

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

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

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

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

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

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

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

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.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

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.