From the age of six I had a penchant for copying theform of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were fre-quently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing thatI drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I wassomewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees; andthe structure of birds, animals, insects and fish. Thus whenI reached eighty years, I hope to have made increasingprogress, and at ninety to see further into the underlyingprinciples of things, so that at one hundred years I will haveachieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred andten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.
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