Hokusai vs Turner: should nature be drawn or dissolved?

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HOKUSAI

My great wave curls with a thousand deliberate lines; even chaos must keep its clean edge, or the eye is lost.

TURNER

But nature has no edges, sir—only vapor and blaze; I chase the storm until form itself burns away.

HOKUSAI

Burn it away and you leave the viewer nothing to hold; I give them Fuji, steady behind the fury.

TURNER

You give them a diagram of the sea—I give them the terror of standing in it.

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