Hiroko Sakai

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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