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HOKUSAI: Learn from the Masters of Art
“From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvellous and divine. When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.” -Hokusai
Hokusai apparently exclaimed on his deathbed, “If only Heaven will give me another ten years … Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.”
A Haiku Hokusai wrote towards the end of his life, shortly before his death:
“Though as a ghost, I shall lightly tread, the summer fields.”
