Hokusai Quotes

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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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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:

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1832)
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (1832)
Hokusai Manga (1814)
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (1814)
Oceans of Wisdom (1834)

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