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Socrates: "Is painting imitation of looks or of truth?"

Glaucon: "Of looks"

Socrates: "Therefore, imitation is surely far from the truth; and, as it seems, it is due to this that it produces everything—because it lays hold of a certain small part of each thing, and that part is itself only a phantom."

Socrates: "If he is a good painter, by painting a carpenter and displaying him from far off, he would deceive children and foolish human beings into thinking that it is truly a carpenter."