It is generally agreed that art as imitation arose during the age of Classical Greece | Paleolithic artists often chose to paint pictures that were intended to frighten people | People in the Paleolithic era may not have had time for art, and the placement of the paintings does not indicate that they were meant to be looked at | Paleolithic artists chose to represent only a small segment of the natural world, and their paintings were not always strict imitations of nature | Hunting was central to Paleolithic life, and animals are central to cave art, leading some to believe that the paintings were created to bring luck to hunters. | Humans were rarely the subjects of cave paintings because it was thought that capturing the image of a hunter would cause the hunter to be virtually trapped. |