And, even then, the text would still not be as flowing and simultaneous as that which is rendered by the artisan. When reading, a person must divert his whole attention to the passage. Therefore, he must read in a continuous, chronological fashion. That means that his mind will structure a uniform order to what he reads and, even when the text is intended to be expressed with spontaneity, the reader's brain will find it impossible to do as such. When absorbed as sensory input, however, the amount of information processed by the brain in a few moments is nearly infinite.
Text does have advantages over image as well.
One of the most obvious is the sheer capacity of information and entertainment that can be contained in a single work of literature. If someone attempted to annotate what a picture displayed, and only what a picture displayed, the compilation would come up short when compared to a book written on a subject. Similarly, only a limited amount of action could be captured in the tension held in the painter's brushstrokes. Text can also better and more completely express the thoughts and emotion of the subject. Not to say that a particularly good artist could not do as such, but his interpretation would be considerably less thorough than that of an author.