Cave Paintings Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in…
— David Massengill
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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 first…
— Christopher McDougall
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Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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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 writing.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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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 paintings…
— Jerry Saltz
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The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,…
— Lewis Thomas
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and…
— David Mitchell
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She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him…
— Rainbow Rowell
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I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them…
— Alison Goldfrapp
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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity.…
— Kevin Rudd
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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 types…
— Randy Bachman
Who Wrote These Cave Paintings Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Cave Paintings Quotes as follows: