Art Quote by Dave Barry

“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.” quote by Dave Barry — Download Open image

“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.”

Dave Barry

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Art Art Museum France Funny Humorous Louvre Mona lisa Museums Range Should Tourists Trying Views World World famous

More by Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat…

Dave Barry

Image

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes…

Dave Barry

Image

The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of…

Dave Barry

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Dave Barry

Image

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

Image

Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary…

Dave Barry

Image

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

Dave Barry

Image

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Dave Barry

Image

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things…

Dave Barry

Image

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you…

Dave Barry

Image

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

Dave Barry

Image

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Dave Barry

Image

Explore all 867 Dave Barry quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley