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There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

— Frans de Waal

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

— Russell Banks

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

— Octavia E. Butler

Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.

— Frans de Waal

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

— Frans de Waal

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

— Gerhard Richter

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

— Frans de Waal

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

— Tucker Max

✗Opposing Perspectives

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

— Jane Goodall

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

— Don Miguel Ruiz