Quotes About Hokusai

#1. Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer appreciation of the sonnets of Shakespeare and the paintings of Hokusai;

Nicholas Ostler

#2. I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I've had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes - mountains and water and flowers and birds.

Renee O'Connor

#3. I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Horace

#4. I say that what one loves is best:
The midnight fastness of the heart.

Allen Tate

#5. Even the ears must dance.

Natalia Makarova

#6. Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

Martin Parr

#7. Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

Niall Williams

#8. If only Heaven will give me just another ten years ... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Hokusai

#9. What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

Hokusai

#10. I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Josh Ritter

#11. I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#12. Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.

Sharon Gannon

#13. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Tom Robbins

#14. Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Mason Cooley

#15. In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.

Seth Gordon

#16. Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.

Rachel Nichols

#18. Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

Hokusai

#19. He gives me a kiss. It's slow and silky, and it makes me melt all over. He caresses my face, and I tilt my head into his touch.

Susan Ee

#20. If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

Hokusai

#21. If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.

Hokusai Katsushika

#22. Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.

John Bunyan