Love follows knowledge.
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.
I am living breathing freedom.
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.
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.
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.
I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small. " This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.