I have always been fascinated by paleontology and…

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

— Trevor Paglen

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by…

— Alison Goldfrapp

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave…

— Jerry Saltz

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various…

— Randy Bachman

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

— Andre Breton

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

— Edmund Wilson

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of…

— Jacob Bronowski

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's…

— Christopher McDougall

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty…

— Maria Konnikova

“To reach the farthest chamber of Lascaux, it's likely a man had to snuff out his light, lower himself down a shaft with a…

— Jane Brox

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive…

— Lewis Thomas

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream…

— Gregory Colbert

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories…

— David Massengill