Werner Herzog and Cormac McCarthy

Werner Herzog reads from All the Pretty Horses:



Herzog and McCarthy discuss cave art:

WERNER HERZOG: When you speak about forgotten dreams, you know, there's one stunning piece unearthed, a rock pendant. The only partial human depiction, the lower part of a female body, naked, the pubic area visible, and the bison somehow embracing the female. And 32,000 years later, you have Picasso drawing paintings and doing prints of the Minotaur and the female.

CORMAC McCARTHY: You know what Picasso said when he came up out of Lascaux after the war?

WERNER HERZOG: Yes.

CORMAC McCARTHY: He said, we've learned nothing.

Full discussion on NPR's Science Friday.