ART AND YOGA IN INDIA, 63

•this demand of ideal art upon the spectator's own imagina-
tion, which is the secret of its power, and which explains the
Indian saying, that the image of a God, even though mis-
shapen, is better than the image of a man. however beautiful.
Realistic, and fully realised, art is finite, and carries the
spectator nowhither that he was not already; ideal and
.suggestive art is infinite and may cany the true spectator
-as far as, nay farther than the artist himself has gone. I
.say the true spectator, because there is as much distinction
•of spectators as of artists, and for both in almost equal
measure is true imagination needed. It is in this power
of carrying the spectator away from his empirical and
rsensational self, by self-forgetf illness, some little way
towards that higher £ Self that is seated in the heart of all
things,' that there lies the explanation of the truth that
strti.sts are amongst the prophets.