#photography > The exercises of the artistic faculties are undoubtedly necessary in the production of pictures from nature, for any given scene offers so many different points of view; but if there is not the perceiving mind to note and feel the relative degrees of importance in the various aspects which nature presents, nothing worthy the name of pictures can be produced. It is this knowledge, or art of seeing, which gives value and importance to the works of certain photographers over all others. > > -- John Moran, https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/ Jimmy Zhang Photography is an art of limitation -- it's about deciding what goes into your frame and what does not. It's about limiting your field of view on a particular object and gainnig the ability to gaze. By limitng the field of view and seeing through the camera lenses, one essentially prevents themselve from seeing the world at its entirety -- and thus the ability to gaze is acquired. It's more about being able to see than being able to take a good picture. I don't particularly enjoy photography in that sense - seeing through the camera lenses prevents me from seeing the world in its entirety.