In order to see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. - Freeman Patterson

In Photography and the Art of Seeing, Patterson, the author, states "In order to see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at".  This sentence intrigued me because I had never heard it before.  It really made me think about the accuracy of the statement.  As adults we tend to label the familiar.  Something we see everyday becomes just a building, just a flower, or just a an old tree; we don’t really stop to see it for is, we see only its label.