Swami Vivekananda Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902
Birthday: January 12
Death: July 4
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?
source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers
topic: Dog, Art, Real, Deluded, Greek Art
