If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.
七十歳以前に描いたものは実に取るに足りないものばかりだ
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Katsushika Hokusai
Born in Edo in 1760, Hokusai produced the iconic Great Wave and the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, works that crossed the ocean to reshape European Impressionism. At ninety he was still striving toward mastery.
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