We admire the marble statue and we despise as inartistic the colored wax figures.

There is no difficulty in producing colored wax figures which look so completely like real persons that the visitor at an exhibit may easily be deceived and may ask information from the wax man leaning over the railing.

On the other hand what a tremendous distance between reality and the marble statue with its uniform white surface! It could never deceive us and as an imitation it would certainly be a failure.

Is it different with a painting?
Here the color may be quite similar to the original, but unlike the marble it has lost its depth and shows us nature on a flat surface.

Again we could never be deceived, and it is not the painter's ambition to make us believe for a moment that reality is before us.