REPEATED WORDS FROM HOKUSAI (Patreon)

Words from Hokusai:
 

“From the age  of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had  published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age  of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of  the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and  insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have  cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a  marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump  to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I  do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used  to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About  Drawing.”
 

“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.”
 

“I have drawn  things since I was six. All that I made before the age of sixty-five is  not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true  construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At  ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred and ten,  everything--every dot, every dash--will live”
 

“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”