I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The… — 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 Image
If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem. — 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 a system… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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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…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/947/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_age_i-have-no-policy-for-my-collection-for-e_266371.jpg)
