Post by Edward Kalisvaart

Hokusai (Japans prentkunstenaar, 1760 – 1849) schreef dit toen hij 74 was: "From the age of six I have 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 marvelous and divine. When I am hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own. If I can express a wish, I ask whoever among you who has had a long life to check whether what I say is true." In alles wat we doen, zijn we nog kleuters....