The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Art 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 Call me Copy Share Image
I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Challenges Copy Share Image
I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Animal Copy Share Image
Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Chain reactions Copy Share Image
Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Air Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Broken 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 Aesthetics Copy Share Image
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Art 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 America 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 Accumulation Copy Share Image
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Art 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 Death Copy Share Image
I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist." — Hiroshi Sugimoto Art 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 Buddhism Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Civilization 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 Believe 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Able Copy Share Image
Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Keep moving Copy Share Image
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