Lascaux Quotes

“Nous sommes la première civilisation qui dispose d'un passé devenu immense. En 1940
personne ne connaissait les grottes de Lascaux et de Chauvet. En juillet dernier des chercheurs
ont découvert un crâne vieux de sept cents millions d'années. La profondeur du temps a
remplacé les dieux.”
― Pascal Quignard

“Go far enough back and all of humankind are cousins. I would like to think, for instance, that somewhere in my genes are the cave painters of Lascaux or the painters of the equally ancient Chinese or African caves and cliffs. To make it universal we must go back beyond the last ice age or we will cut off our cousinship with America and Australia. I can only hope that no human or protohuman genes have been totally lost.”
― Naomi Mitchison, Early in Orcadia