If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
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… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. — Hokusai Copy Share Image
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
