In a dialogue with Glaucon, Plato has Socrates launch a critique of painting along the following lines:

Then representational art is far removed from truth, and this, it seems, is the reason why it can produce everything, because it touches or lays hold of only a small part of the object, and a phantom at that, as for example, a painter, we say, will paint a cobbler, a carpenter and other craftsmen, though he himself has no expertness in any of these arts, but nevertheless if he were a good painter, by exhibiting at a distance his picture of a carpenter he would deceive children and foolish men, and make them believe it to be a real carpenter. . . .

Source Plato, Republic