Hiroshi Sugimoto Quotes

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• Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Memories, Found Objects

  "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Art, Real

  "Eerie yet gorgeous scenes make taxidermy spring to life" by Alyssa Coppelman, www.wired.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Artistic, Intention

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• If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Vision, Almost Done, Photographer

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• Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

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  Home, Air, Views

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• To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Function

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• Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Mean, Mind

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• The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Years, Civilization, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.

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  Challenges, Trying, Way

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• Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Spirit, Photographer

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• Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Negative, Records

  "Tradition: Hiroshi Sugimoto". ART21 interview, art21.org.

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• When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Dream, Practice, Wake Up

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• People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.

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  Photography, Believe, Reading

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• Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state. It's like you might be reborn, but the process of being born you won't remember - the same way that the dying process is a slow movement from consciousness to unconsciousness.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Moving, Dying, Movement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

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  Religious, Night, Glowing

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• We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Real, Technology, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Moving, Life Is, States

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Pieces, Contemporary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Strong, Scary, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Spiritual, School, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.

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  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I was enlightened already or not. So I said, "Yes, I am enlightened," and then I studied quickly to catch up.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Buddhist, California, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Age, Energy, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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