Archaeologists Quote by Mary Leakey

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

— Mary Leakey

“While humans have been cooking, making music, and building for thousands of years, archaeologists have yet to discover those cave paintings of Man at…

— Ka Wai Cheung

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

— Louis Leakey

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up…

— Steve Martin

“A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we received this…

— Anonymous

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the…

— August Wilson

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical…

— Julian Schnabel

Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art world, and…

— Grayson Perry

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any…

— Laurence Overmire