Hokusai Quotes

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

  Hokusai

  Artist, Years, Giving

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

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  Painting, One More Day, If I Could

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• He dibujado cosas desde que tenía 6 años. Todo lo que hice antes de los 65 no vale la pena contarlo. A los 73 empecé a comprender la verdadera construcción de animales, plantas, árboles, pájaros, peces e insectos. A los 90 entraré en el secreto de las cosas. A los 110, todo -cada punto, cada raya- vivirá. A todos los que vayan a vivir tanto como yo, les prometo cumplir mi palabra. Escribo esto en mi vejez, solía llamarme Hokusai, pero hoy firmo como 'El viejo loco por el dibujo'.

  Hokusai

  Writing, Animal, Men

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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

  Real, Years, Giving

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• 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, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.

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  Passion, Animal, Years

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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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  Real, Animal, Bird

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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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  Art, Brother, Wall

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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.

  Hokusai

  Years, Age, Sketching

  Hokusai Katsushika, Kojiro Tomita (1957). “Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849”

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