Since the age of six I had the habit of drawing forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is of much value. At the age of seventy-three I was able to fathom slightly the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish, the growth of grass and trees. Thus perhaps at eighty my art may improve greatly; at ninety it may reach real depth,
and at a hundred it may become divinely inspired.
At hundred-ten every dot and every stroke may be as if living.