Hiroko Sakai Quotes

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

I want to be stronger, so i can protect what i love more.

What you can lose is what you really don't need in your life from the first place.

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

My problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks ... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ... they at least make my art more interesting

Look in the mirror. What you see there is what you get from others. When you smile, smile comes back to you. When you get angry, anger comes back to you. When you love, love comes back to you, when you hate, hatred comes back to you.
That's very simple. You can make your life however you like by how you behave.

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls ...

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ...

I am living breathing freedom

It's good to be with someone whom I can "understand" but it's greater to be with someone whom I can 'feel

I think that i was a rat in rat wheel in my previous life ... can not forget the habit

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ...

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly ... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy ... etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist ... Wait, are you talking about me?

How come dog and dog owner are so alike?

The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'.

How come I have too many things to do all the time ... ??

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ?