6+ Hokusai Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Hokusai quotes and sayings.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. — Hokusai

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy. — Hokusai

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. — Hokusai

At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive. — Hokusai

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter. — Hokusai

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother — Hokusai