Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
I never felt interpretation was my job.
I think it's the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
There is so much we do not know, and the more we do know, the more we realize that early interpretations were completely wrong.