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.
THEAETETUS: Of course.
STRANGER: And may we not fairly call the sort of art, which produces an appearance and not an image, phantastic art?
THEAETETUS: Most fairly.
STRANGER: These then are the two kinds of image-making—the art of making likenesses, and phantastic or the art of making appearances?
THEAETETUS: True.