Why don't artists trim the edges?

Artists such as painters, photographers and calligraphers often see their long hair and beards, as if artists should be like this. It seems that I am embarrassed to call myself a painter without long hair, and I am embarrassed to say that I know calligraphy without a beard. ...

Why is this happening? It's simple. Because from the portraits or photos of some artists left in their early years, almost all artists have long beards and long hair, so we understand, oh, it has been like this since ancient times!

But in fact, every man is like this in his early years. When I was young, there were several 80-year-old people in our village, all of whom looked like sage like type. But they don't know art. If they have to know art, they will know a little about farmland art such as "ploughing, watering and fertilizing" at best, but they won't "write and draw".

In fact, artists in the early years are the same as farmers in image. Older people are all so bearded and so fairy.

But in the early years, those saints-like farmers rarely left photos, and artists, although we all think that artists must be in trouble, are relatively embarrassed, because we often hear such words: "A painter is down and out, so he goes to live in the United States" and "A painter has no money and comes to Shanghai from Guangzhou" … Anyway.

How do you think you can go to America without money? How many years will it take for the old farmer to make this ticket? Therefore, the starved camel is bigger than the horse, and there is still money to take pictures. Moreover, their photos often get more attention and better preservation, and they are all left as "precious portraits".

So, we all thought, oh, that's what artists do.

Yes, the early farmers were actually like this. Because there was no new razor in the early years, it was very troublesome to shave with scissors, so most people were too lazy to cut it, so they were not careful. When the beard grew, they simply stopped cutting it, so it was the same for elderly men. But everyone subconsciously thinks that only artists are like this, so artists now desperately grow beards, even without razors, ignore their hair and try to keep them.

This gives people an illusion, oh, artists are busy with creation, so they don't trim their edges!

Anyone who thinks so is wrong.

If the "untidiness" of early artists is restricted by conditions, then the "untidiness" of artists today is a kind of elaborate dressing and packaging.

Today's artists "slovenly" actually have only one purpose, that is, to make others feel that they are artists!