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From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvellous and divine. When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own — Hokusai, one year before his death at 89 Thanks for reading Sarv’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “I’m just peeling mushrooms for the lamb de tournelles” “Peeling mushrooms?”* “Yeah. It’s just a nice little fun detail. So when the diners see it, they’ll know that someone spent a lot of time on their dish” — The Bear, S2E7 “F

This post can also be found on my personal website, Hokusai returned to this motif throughout his life, finally nailing it at 72 From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one…

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