Hiroko Sakai Quotes

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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...

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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...

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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...?

~ Hiroko Sakai

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'.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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.

~ Hiroko Sakai

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...?

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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...

~ Hiroko Sakai

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?

~ Hiroko Sakai

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*

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai

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

~ Hiroko Sakai