Pictures (and I include photography here) distinguish themselves from the other arts in that they do not move in time as do: music, theatre, film and reading.
The nearest that pictures move in time is when they are clustered together in sequences to form a notion of time as in graphic novels, comics and picture books. Then there is animation, of course.
Another distinguishing feature of the pictorial arts has been nicely put by Matisse, when he said, “Whereas the writer has to use the shared language of speech every artist uses his own self-invented visual language”.
(These are my daughters’ garages by the way).