How to understand "painting and photography are both physical and mental labor?"

Perhaps most people will think that artists engaged in photography and painting are pure mental workers, but this view is wrong. Photography and painting are both mental workers and manual workers.

French vian "The Greek Woman in the Bath"

As far as photography is concerned, we often see photographers running around sweating with machines or moving cameras on their backs in some movies and TV series. A photographer should have not only a pair of observant eyes, but also a pair of dexterous hands and diligent legs and feet.

Rubens, Germany, soil and water

Take painting as an example. As we all know, it often takes a long time to create a mature work. In this process, not to mention how hard it is for the painter to go outside to collect wind and sketch, just in the studio, bending down to move the easel, often for ten eight hours or more at a time, every day, the work is completed.

After the girl in Mashnikov, Russia took a shower,

This question also reminds me of the experience of a great painter: Matisse, a great painter in the 20th century and the founder of Fauvism, who is as famous as Picasso and Dali, suddenly changed his artistic path at the age of 72, stopped painting and began to engage in paper-cutting art.. At that time, many people did not understand what was going on. Later, I learned that Matisse was not in good health this year and was no longer qualified for the work in front of the easel.

French Matisse "The Rotating Man"

Some people say that people engaged in photography and painting art should not only have a pair of "bright eyes" and "skilled hands", but also have a good body. This statement makes sense.