"Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object."

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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

— Werner Herzog