Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about … - Hokusai

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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 the seventieth year none is worthy.

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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 animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing. '

110, Animal, Insects, Men, Understand, Writing

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

Artist, Giving, Ten, Years

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 Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

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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.

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

Day, If I Could, One More Day, Painting