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
the absence of a particular path that the eye must follow does not entail that the eye follows no path