The Painted Word by Tom Wolf

Artists get tired of being asked, what's it about? You're two instinctual responses are: okay, well, I'll just tell you what it's about. People spend roughly three times as long reading the text as they do actually looking at the artwork. There's a book called The Painted Word by Tom Wolf where he says more and more people don't look at the art. They look at the philosophy behind the art and it's been more time reading the artist.