--- title: "4 Artistic Quotes By Hiroshi Sugimoto" description: "4 Artistic quotes by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Plus more from Hiroshi Sugimoto and more Artistic sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_artistic_when-i-wake-up-i-just-make-it-happen-my_745645.jpg" --- > [When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/when-i-wake-up-i-just-make-it-happen-my-dreams-come-true-that-is-the/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_artistic_when-i-wake-up-i-just-make-it-happen-my_745645.jpg) > [Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/art-resides-even-in-things-with-no-artistic-intentions/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_art_art-resides-even-in-things-with-no-artis_1590013.jpg) > [Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/art-and-religion-have-the-same-origin-art-first-or-religion-first/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a5/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_art_art-and-religion-have-the-same-origin-ar_1654148.jpg) > [I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-want-to-put-it-back-together-now-this-artistic-expression-that/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_animal_i-want-to-put-it-back-together-now-this_1831621.jpg) ## Other authors on Artistic - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gilbert-k-chesterton-38545.jpg) Gilbert K. Chesterton 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/gilbert-k-chesterton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/vincent-van-gogh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julia-cameron-54149.jpg) Julia Cameron 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/julia-cameron/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-saunders-37966.jpg) George Saunders 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/george-saunders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-camille-paglia-20735.jpg) Camille Paglia 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/camille-paglia/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-billy-corgan-18126.jpg) Billy Corgan 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/billy-corgan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrei-tarkovsky-12850.jpg) Andrei Tarkovsky 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/andrei-tarkovsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-walford-52464.jpg) John Walford 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/john-walford/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-50782.jpg) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-saltz-49147.jpg) Jerry Saltz 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/jerry-saltz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/friedrich-nietzsche/) ## More by Hiroshi Sugimoto > [I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-have-a-strong-feeling-about-this-quick-movement-and-changing-of/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/if-i-already-have-a-vision-my-work-is-almost-done-the-rest-is-a/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/photography-is-like-a-found-object-a-photographer-never-makes-an/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-m-inviting-the-spirits-into-my-photography-it-s-an-act-of-god/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/we-ll-drive-backwards-in-what-will-become-your-new-car-to-the-beach/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-feel-that-i-m-in-a-very-interesting-position-where-i-m-standing/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/life-is-one-passage-and-then-you-keep-moving-into-another-state-it-s/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-have-no-policy-for-my-collection-for-example-there-s-a-bunch-of/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/one-night-i-had-an-idea-while-i-was-at-the-movies-to-photograph-the/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-don-t-know-whether-the-future-or-2018-exists-or-not-but-if-it/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/the-seascapes-are-before-human-beings-and-after-human-beings-the/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/my-concept-was-within-the-five-minute-video-for-people-to-see-one/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/when-i-wake-up-i-just-make-it-happen-my-dreams-come-true-that-is-the/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/not-any-particular-religion-or-school-of-religion-but-being-an-artist/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) > [I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroshi-sugimoto/i-came-to-california-in-1970-and-so-many-people-were-asking-if-i-was/) [Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroshi-sugimoto/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/hiroshi-sugimoto/#itemlist", "name": "4 Artistic Quotes By Hiroshi Sugimoto", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I wake up I just make it happen. 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