Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.