“The first major discovery of prehistoric art was the Spanish cave of Altamira, which, like Lascaux, is one of the most spectacular examples of Upper Paleolithic art yet known.”

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

Source: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), p. 20

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
1970s
Variant: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century
Context: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Part 1: "The Creative Mind", §9 (p. 19)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
Context: The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations — more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

1990s, Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere, 1998

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism