Visual and verbal …

… Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction | Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Unlike music, painting gives us something visual to hang on to but, for all that, it strikes me as only marginally less challenging to write about, moving something from its medium of strength—the visual, the seen—to a compromised secondary language that is forever striving to create, at best, an impression of an original that is always fated to fall short.