Hiroshi Sugimoto Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Spirit, Photographer

• To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Function

• 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.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Believe, Reading

• It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Garden, Different

• 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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