Why Look?

Why not look?  We feel the need to look because we are human.  We are interested in things that don't really concern us, in that respect, and we need to look to make a human/personal connection with the subject.  In art, we look to approve of our curiosity.  We need to look at art, because that's what art makes one want to do.  If I glanced over at a piece of art, and my response to it is "Why Look?" then I feel that the piece has failed.  It needs to engage the viewer, not deter us away, regardless of what the artist statement may say.  We as a culture are now the most visual ever.  We can find pictures, videos, blogs, movies, sports, anything at the click of a mouse.  It has made us dependent on our eyes, instead of our minds and imagination.  We need to look to engage ourselves with the subject and to understand the subject.  Our culture has been raised on TV, internet, video games, etc. and we now need to deal with the consequences of that.  I guess this really isn't an answer, but we just need to look.  It's how we're programmed, and as visual artists, we are all voyeurs in one aspect or another we get off on looking at things.  It's just what we do.