Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for…

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history…

— Kathryn Lasky

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

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

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

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're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and…

— Julio Cortazar

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

— Salvador Dali

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

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

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

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

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

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

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