What We Say and What We See

"the relation of language to painting is an infinite relation. It is
not that words are imperfect, or that, when confronted by the visible,
they prove insuperably inadequate. Neither can be reduced to the
other's terms: it is in vain that we say what we see; what we see
never resides in what we say. And it is in vain that we attempt to
show, by the use of images, metaphors, or similes, what we are saying;
the space where they achieve their splendor is not that deployed by
our eyes but that defined by the sequential elements of syntax"
Foucault