When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to… — 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
