Great write up! Hokusai and his Great Wave is a personal favorite of mine too.
there's a quote attributed to Hokusai that represents this lifelong pursuit of mastery I'd like to embody:
"Ever since I was six I’ve been obsessed by drawing the form of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an endless number of drawings, but everything I produced before the age of seventy is not worth counting. Not until I was seventy-three did I begin to understand the structure of real nature, animals, plants, trees, birds, fish, and insects.
Consequently, by the time I am eighty-six, I will have made even more progress; at ninety I will have probed the mystery of things; at a hundred I will undoubtedly have attained a marvelous pinnacle, and when I’m a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.
I would ask anyone living as long as I to see if my word holds true."
He always sounds like such a great guy. To have such optimism. Unfortunately I find myself drawn towards the quote by Tyler Durden, 'On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero'. I know, I need to get out more, lol.
Thankyou for this and for sharing the link to the movie about his daughter. Really enjoyed it
Great write up! Hokusai and his Great Wave is a personal favorite of mine too.
there's a quote attributed to Hokusai that represents this lifelong pursuit of mastery I'd like to embody:
"Ever since I was six I’ve been obsessed by drawing the form of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an endless number of drawings, but everything I produced before the age of seventy is not worth counting. Not until I was seventy-three did I begin to understand the structure of real nature, animals, plants, trees, birds, fish, and insects.
Consequently, by the time I am eighty-six, I will have made even more progress; at ninety I will have probed the mystery of things; at a hundred I will undoubtedly have attained a marvelous pinnacle, and when I’m a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.
I would ask anyone living as long as I to see if my word holds true."
He always sounds like such a great guy. To have such optimism. Unfortunately I find myself drawn towards the quote by Tyler Durden, 'On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero'. I know, I need to get out more, lol.