Art, culture, and spirituality: A Prabhuddha Bharata centenary perspective, 1896-1996

Art must be in touch with nature--and wherever that touch is gone,Art degenerates--yet Art must be above nature...Art is recreating the beautiful.There must be art in everything. It is culture that withstands shocks,not a simple mass of knowledge...There must come culture into the blood..it is spiritual culture and ethical culture alone that can change wrong racial tendencies for the better...The finer the organism the higher the culture. The mainspring of every race lives in it's spirituality,and the death of that race begins the day that spirituality wanes and materialism gains groungs. These are the words of Swami Vivekananda