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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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.
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