However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
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… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
“We'll drive backwards in what will become your new car to the beach where we first slept side by side. The green waves will… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
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… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
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… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
My concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share
![“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…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/569/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetic_i-didn-t-want-to-be-criticized-for-takin_1474127.jpg)
