"From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention."

- Katsushika Hokusai

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White, purity, cleanliness, sterile. I tell my students, if you get in trouble (in one of their pieces), white is going to be your salvation.