I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries.… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“I mean seeing the Elgin marbles this morning gave me the same feeling and I didn’t know, don’t know whether I’m in… — H.D Copy Share Image
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre,… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it,… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted.… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
“In fact, if a museum were filled with all of the world's stolen artworks, it would be the most impressive collection ever… — Ulrich Boser Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Consider Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, celebrated for its beautiful detail, the surreal backdrop, and of course the subject’s enigmatic smile. More… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move… — John Oates Copy Share Image
“Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around. — Jemima West Copy Share Image
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“the royal revenue was doubled from 600 to 1200 livres ($240,000) a day. In his reign the façade of Notre Dame was… — Will Durant Copy Share Image