Pieces of music consist of sounds and silences presented to the listener in a temporal order  A painting, in contrast, is not presented one part at a time to the viewer; there is thus no particular path that the viewer' s eye must follow in order to read the painting
Ttherefore, an essential distinction between the experiences of hearing music and of viewing paintings is that hearing music has a temporal dimension but viewing a painting has none
relying on the metaphor of reading to characterize how a painting is viewed presupposes the correctness of the conclusion to be drawn on the basis of that characterization