{"id":298037,"date":"2021-01-23T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=298037"},"modified":"2021-01-23T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T17:11:09","slug":"hokusai-learn-from-the-masters-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/23\/hokusai-learn-from-the-masters-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"HOKUSAI: Learn from the Masters of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From 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.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d -Hokusai<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Haiku Hokusai wrote towards the end of his life, shortly before his death: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Though as a ghost, I shall lightly tread, the summer fields.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Drawing lessons 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n