T. J. Clark quoted in Brian Dillon, Essayism, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017

Many of us, maybe all of us, look at some images repeatedly, but it seems we do not write that repetition, or think it, once written, worth reading by others. Maybe we deeply want to believe that images happen, essentially or sufficiently, all at once. . . . Maybe that actual business of repeated gawping strikes us as embarrassing, at least when set out in sentences. (‘Too passive? Too privileged? Too rudimentary? Too male’?) Maybe we fear that the work we depend on images to do fur us — the work of immobilizing, and therefore making tolerable — will be undone if we throw the image back into the flow of time. Whatever the reason for the omission, I think it should be repaired. [p. 121]

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