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Neil MacGregor has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this…
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Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
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For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell…
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of…
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[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could…
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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,…
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The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
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Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and…
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:…
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Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world,…
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of…
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I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
— Tyra Banks
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Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre,…
— Eli Broad
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Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
— Paul Cezanne
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The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
— Jean Cocteau
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I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be…
— Tom of Finland
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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
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I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
— Unknown Author
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza,…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
— E. O. Wilson
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The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas…
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
— Alberto Giacometti
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