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Quote card: From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things.

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things.”

Katsushika Hokusai, postscript to One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (1834). He went on to say that nothing he made before seventy was worth noticing.

Hokusai kept improving into his eighties. In any trade, mastery is a lifetime's work.

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