Louvre/history/12th-20th Centuries

Famous quotes containing the words louvre, history and/or centuries:

    “He is what he hears and sees and if,
    Without pathos, he feels what he hears
    And sees, being nothing otherwise, he has not
    To go to the Louvre to behold himself.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)