I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
Looking and seeing are two different things.
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.
Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.