Art is older than agriculture.
It’s older than domesticated animals.
It’s older than the wheel, the written word, and even the first stitched shoes.

Long before we planted fields or built villages, we were painting on cave walls, carving figures from bone, and making pigments from crushed rocks and animal tallow. Art is one of the earliest things we ever did—one of the first ways we tried to understand the world and express ourselves within it.

When you see a piece of art today, you’re participating in a tradition that stretches back tens of thousands of years, older than almost anything else in our daily lives. It’s one of the deepest human instincts we have.