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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 made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

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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 the seventieth year none is worthy.

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If only I could live another ten years. If not ten could Heaven grant me another five; I might become a true artist.
As death was approaching

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If I live to be ninety, I'll have learned how to draw.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Born: October 31, 1760
Died: May 10, 1849 (aged 88)
Bio: Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by Sesshū Tōyō and other styles of Chinese painting.
Known for:
  1. The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1832)
  2. Fine Wind, Clear Morning (1832)
  3. Hokusai Manga (1814)
  4. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (1814)
  5. Oceans of Wisdom (1834)

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