THEAETETUS: Quite true.

STRANGER: And that which being other is also like, may we not fairly

call a likeness or image?

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And may we not, as I did just now, call that part of the

imitative art which is concerned with making such images the art of

likeness-making?

THEAETETUS: Let that be the name.

STRANGER: And what shall we call those resemblances of the beautiful,

which appear such owing to the unfavourable position of the spectator,

whereas if a person had the power of getting a correct view of works

of such magnitude, they would appear not even like that to which they

profess to be like? May we not call these 'appearances,' since they

appear only and are not really like?

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: There is a great deal of this kind of thing in painting, and

in all imitation.

Sophist