Hokusai. Master artist of Japan.
Inventor of manga.
He defied
convention to paint the familiar - - the humblest of peasants,
'fragrant' laborers in fish markets - - wealthy patrons would
not buy his art. - mchaiku
He called himself *Gakyo Rojin* which translates "old man
mad about drawing."
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"From the age of five I
have had passion for sketching the form of things, from about
the age of fifty I showed a number of drawings,...
" ... yet of all I drew prior to my
seventies there is truly nothing of any great note." Can any of us imagine composing over
30,000 works of art in a lifetime?
one hundred
tales of ghosts
"...When I was seventy-two I finally
made out something of the shape of grasses and trees, the structure
of birds and other animals, insects, fishes... "
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"...Therefore when I become
eighty I shall have made more progress; in my nineties I shall have
penetrated even further the hidden meaning of things; ..."
"... at the age of a
hundred I shall have reached the divine mystery, and at one
hundred and ten even dots and lines will surely possess a life
of their own."
Sources:
books: Hokusai
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