At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have m…

- Hokusai

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before …

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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van G…

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I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of a…

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If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

- Hokusai

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

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If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

- Hokusai

Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds,…

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