Some people say painting is much more difficult than photography. How to understand this statement?

In fact, this question is really not clear in one or two sentences. Mainly because our definition of photography is not clear enough. ?

What is photography? I'm afraid most people can't say it clearly. Nowadays, with the development of smart phones, everyone can take photos with their mobile phones. Does this national photography count as photography? If you count, then there is no threshold for photography, and everyone can take pictures. In this sense, the threshold of painting is much higher than photography, and it is naturally more difficult than photography. ?

If this kind of national photo-taking behavior is not photography, then how to take pictures is photography? At present, there is no authoritative appraisal standard. First of all, I don't think taking pictures and photography are the same thing. My personal criteria for judging photography and photography are: the person who has a theoretical basis for photography and uses theory to take pictures is photography. If there is no photography theory, they are just purely record-based photography, which I think can only be regarded as photography. If you define photography in this way, then photography has a threshold. Like painting, you need to master the basic theory and have hands-on ability. ?

Even though photography and painting have a threshold, objectively speaking, all the steps of painting need people to realize, while photography leaves the most important imaging link to the machine to complete. Painting and photography are both arts. If you ask which is more difficult, you can say painting. Most photographers have studied painting, because it is difficult to grasp the color of light and shadow without painting foundation. A good painting definitely needs profound painting skills, keen insight, rich theoretical knowledge, and even more than ten years or decades of painting experience. Painting art takes a long time to achieve something, even a lifetime of hard work! ?

Most importantly, I learned about these two difficulties from the technical level.

To compare and analyze. Since painting and photography belong to artistic expression means, the goals they pursue are consistent with the ideas the author wants to express. From this point of view, there is no difficulty between the two, and all technology and creativity are for the work. Whether painting or photography, good works are the crystallization of the perfect unity of the author's technology and concept.