"Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life."

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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