Louvre/history

Famous quotes containing the words louvre and/or history:

“The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)