I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is … - Hokusai

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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Hokusai

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. '

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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.

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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 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.

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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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