3 Quotes by Hokusai Katsushika

If only the gods would give me ten or at least five years more, I could become a perfect artist.

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.