In his characteristically suggestive comment upon the Japanese artist hokusai, Mr. John La Farge gives an interesting account of the training established and enforced in the school of the Kanos, a family of painters which survived the vicissitudes of more than four centuries.
"Essays On Work And Culture"
Hamilton Wright Mabie
The signature of the artist in question reveals not an imitative but an original nature, not a faculty absorbed in accuracy but in passion for expression: "hokusai, the Old Man Crazy about Painting."
"Essays On Work And Culture"
Hamilton Wright Mabie
I think I can give you a good article on hokusai; but that is for afterwards; Fontainebleau is first in hand.
"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)"
Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang