It's Easiest to Draw Ghosts
The king of Qi liked drawing very much. Once he asked everyone, "What is the easiest thing to draw?" After a long silence, one of the painters said, "Your Majesty, I think ghosts are the easiest to paint. When we paint something that is constantly in front of people, people find flaws in it.
And ghosts are illusory things, people have not seen, there is no definite standard, according to their own imagination, how to draw how to draw, no one to find fault in the end like ghosts. That's why it's easiest to draw ghosts."
Everyone thought, it is so!
Whatever we do, we should proceed from reality. Although some things we feel very familiar, but also not easy to do well, this requires us to work hard to do.
畫鬼最易
齊王很喜歡畫畫,有一次齊王問大家:“大家說什麼東西最容易畫呢?” 沉寂了很久之後,其中一個畫師說:“大王,我覺得畫鬼魅最容易。經常呈現在人們面前的東西,我們作畫時都會被人們發現瑕疵。而鬼魅是虛幻的事物,人們都沒有見到過,沒有確定的標準,根據自己的想象,想怎麼畫就怎麼畫,不會有人去挑剔到底像不像鬼。所以說畫鬼最容易了。”
大家心裡一琢磨,確實如此啊!
我們不論做什麼事情,都要從實際出發。有些事情我們雖然感到很熟悉,但也不是輕而易舉就能做好的,這就需要我們下功夫努力去做。