Chauvet Quotes

#1. Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

Simon McBurney

#2. 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.

Werner Herzog

#3. human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.

Simon McBurney

#5. 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.

Werner Herzog

#6. Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.

Yukio Mishima

#7. [A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

Pierre Boulez

#8. Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

#9. The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

Chris Cleave

#10. Being given it so easily seemed to devalue the years she had spent relishing her brief moments of solitude.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Matt Passmore