I'm a square. Can you dig that?

When it comes to photography, I love the square. I don't know what it is about square images but personally I've always preferred the 1:1 format over the various rectangular formats provided by digital and film. Years ago with 120 or 126 people happily snapped dozens of square images and pasted them into albums. What makes the ratio of the Hassleblad and Rolleiflex inferior to today's standard of 4:3?

So why are there so few modern cameras that can shoot this format? I really don't know. Most of the classic oil on canvas paintings are rectangular. I guess it could be that our eyes do see at a slightly panoramic image but why should we blindly go around copying nature? I thought part of the point of art was to break from what is natural and common and create something pleasing. Since I am not a documentary photographer I don't want to merely make a copy of what I see, I want to express how I feel about what I see.

Perhaps the square is just too unnatural to our eyes. Do we see its symmetry and gawk? I can't claim to be smart enough to know the answer to that. but I know I want to compose more square images. Is that so bad?