El cocodrilo de Aristóteles

Most of the time, when a painter chooses to deal with a philosophical subject, he paints a text. A text or a phrase of the text, a moment of that text, even a word. As painting an idea is difficult, he has to paint a wink that expresses that idea in which all the philosopher's thought is summed up: that wink is a detail, but the devil is in the detail. What you have to see in a painting that he would call philosophical is the detail that summarizes this philosophy. For Anaxagoras it is an oil lamp, some vegetables for Pythagoras, a jug for Socrates and Xanthippe, tears for Heraclitus, a laugh for Democritus, a cup for Socrates, a lamp for Diogenes, a cave for Plato, a crocodile for Aristotle, a lancet. for Seneca, a loaf for Marcus Aurelius, a shell for Augustine, and this to remain within the limits of ancient philosophy.