Hiroko Sakai

“I am living breathing freedom”

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

“The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?”

“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.”

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

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

“My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier... sigh*”

“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...”

“...I gotta burn these scales... sigh*”

“What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...”

“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...?”

“Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.”

“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”

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

“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”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“How come dog and dog owner are so alike?”

“yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...”

“If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, "Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining everything. But Everything can be only the path to get to the success of your dream. You can not fail until you give up. As long as you keep going, you are on the path for your success.”

“Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are, love all the people around you like your family. then you are not alone anymore.”

“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?”

“ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...”

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

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

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

“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.I think the life is the same.”

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