Limitations are the inherent part of any art. The art shines and becomes visible only through the limitations; that's why many artists choose to limit their te

Limitations are the inherent part of any art. The art shines and becomes visible only through the limitations; that's why many artists choose to limit their technique, be it pointillist painting, writing 6510 assembly, drawing 32-color bitmaps, or programming a computer which has limitless limitations for the programmer to choose from. You could replace painting realistic-looking objects with simply taking photographs, which seemingly does the same: reproduce an original setting in most realistic-looking way. But that isn't painting anymore, that takes away the art. In fact, photography is a whole another art: while it shares many basic principles with painting, the art of photography is very different from what makes painting an art.