“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.” PeopleIfsLooksKindDreamPaintingExploringCavesCave Paintings Author:Gregory Colbert
“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. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.” HumansArtCultureNationsRocksPaintingEuropeAncientFortunateLinksContinuingCavesHuman HistoryAntiquityAboriginalCave Paintings Author:Kevin Rudd
“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.” PeopleMenHumansStillsSoulCultureBeliefReligiousModernPaintingEvidenceAwakeningLandscapeCavesSculptureParallelsHuman SoulSymbolicReligious BeliefDepictionNeanderthals Author:Werner Herzog
“When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.” LooksChildrenLittlesArtFacesPaintingSceneAccomplishedPrimitiveCavesArt HistoryScribbles Author:Werner Herzog
“In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.” DoeUseBodyStrangePaintingFemaleSeriesDrawingNakedCavesFemale BodyMotifsMinotaurBison Author:Werner Herzog