Must be my favourite quote about the shadowy nature of ekphrasis. “Everywhere in ekphrastic studies…
“spending an hour…” Herman Hesse
“Let anyone who is accustomed to looking at a great many pictures in an exhibition to try just once, if he is still capable of it, spending an hour in front of a single masterpiece and content himself with that for the day”
Herman Hesse in his essay ‘On Little Joys‘ 1905
