You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.