[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c17.62 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.62 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.62 - **Language:** English ### [c17.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.62) 'You have only,' Sir George Watt writes, 'to look at the plants and animals employed in the most ancient designs to feel the strong Indian current of thought there conventionalized, which must have involved centuries of evolution. The treatment of the elephant, monkey, and serpent is Indian, and in no way Greek. No Greeks (as few Englishmen to-day) could give the life touches of those animals seen on all the oldest sculptures and frescoes.'¹ - [Previous: c17.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.61) - [Next: c17.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.63) - [Up: c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.62) · Pramāṇa