David Lewis-Williams

James David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) is a South African archaeologist.

Quotes

 * Art and the ability to comprehend it are more dependent on kinds of mental imagery and the ability to manipulate mental images than on intelligence.
 * The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (2002), p. 111.
 * The contemporary Western emphasis on the supreme value of intelligence has tended to suppress certain forms of consciousness and to regard them as irrational, marginal, aberrant or even pathological and thereby to eliminate them from investigations of the deep past.
 * The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (2002), p. 121.