Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese · 1760–1849
Ukiyo-e painter and printmaker whose restless experimentation over a seventy-year career produced some of the most iconic images in world art, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Wikipedia ↗“六才にして物の形状を写すの癖ありて”
日本語
“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs, but all I produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account.”
“When I am a hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.”
日本語
“天我をして五年の命を保たしめば真正の画工となるを得べし”
日本語
“If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.”