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

— 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

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 anyway, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

— 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 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Hiroko Sakai