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“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I
became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some
reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of
attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds
and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on
trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am
eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential
nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine
understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I
will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint
will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to
prove that this is no lie.”
Hokusai: Peonies and Butterfly
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I
became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some
reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of
attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds
and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on
trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am
eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential
nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine
understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I
will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint
will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to
prove that this is no lie.”
―
Hokusai
Hosoda Eishi: Yang Guifei
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