Japanese Notes by Igort

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<..great art, even when made with modesty, is often a matter of eyelids, noses, and ears.>

<Hokusai’s last words:
“Since the ahe of 6, I’ve had the mania of copying the forms of things, among what I have depicted, there is nothing worthy of consideration. At 23 I have barely grasped the essence of the form of animals and birds, insects and fish, life of herbs and plants. At 86 I will progress further; at 90 I will have worked the hidden meaning even further, and at 100 I perhaps will have truly reached the dimension of the divine marvelous. When I am 110, even just a dot or a line will be endowed with their own lives.
Declared by the old man crazy about painting.”>