For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.
I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed.
A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can't have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences, full of faith trials... I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it... I still do have visions that inspire my work.
My understanding of Heaven has expanded and deepened since my first encounter with visions and dreams of Heaven.
My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.
So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.
I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.
Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.
If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.Collection: Inspirational
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.Collection: Love
In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.Collection: Inspirational
Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.Collection: Gratitude
I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.Collection: Denominations
Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.Collection: Humility
We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.Collection: Space
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.Collection: Journey
When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice, so we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.Collection: Grateful
No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.Collection: Destiny
I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.Collection: Dust
So much time is spent on belief. So little time is spent on love!Collection: Littles
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.Collection: Race
Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in the purest way.Collection: Children
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.Collection: Inspirational
The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.Collection: Important
The art of life is loving and listening to one another.Collection: Art
I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.Collection: Ideas
Indifference is a quarantined difference.Collection: Differences
I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.Collection: Teacher
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.Collection: Inspirational
I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!Collection: Children
I have been blessed by God. And if I'm blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.Collection: Blessed
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.Collection: Inspirational
How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?Collection: Doe
When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.Collection: Looks
True passions do not deprive love.Collection: Passion
A fermented mind - according to nothing, we are something.Collection: Mind
Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.Collection: Reason
Miracle is a misunderstood reality.Collection: Reality
We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.Collection: Law
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.Collection: Children
An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.Collection: Reality
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.Collection: Past
Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end.Collection: Hallucinations
A message from a flower: "Do not pick me. I want to live".Collection: Flower
No supernatural can exist for the mankind that does not want to believe it.Collection: Believe