Quotes by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto

[I’m concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

Buddhist

Ideas

Life And Death

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

Mind

Spiritual

Thinking

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into ‘un-nature’ at breakneck speed…My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

Life Is

Long

Speed

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Art

Consciousness

Helping

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It’s the same origin.

Art

Feelings

Religious

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

Art

Mean

Mind

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Art

Artistic

Intention

Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.

Negative

Photography

Records

However fake the subject, once photographed, it’s as good as real.

Art

Photography

Real

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

Believe

Lying

Photography

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Age

Air

Almost Done

America

Animal

Art

Artist

Artistic

Australia

Beautiful

Believe

Broken

Buddhism

Buddhist

California

Challenges

Character

Children

Christian

Civilization

Consciousness

Contemporary

Couple

Different

Dirty

Dream

Dying

Energy

Example

Feelings

Fighting

Found Objects

Function

Garden

Glowing

Groups

Growing

Helping

Home

Ideas

Intention

Interesting

Japan

Life And Death

Life Is

Long

Lucky

Lying

Mean

Memories

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Quotes by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto

[I’m concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into ‘un-nature’ at breakneck speed…My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It’s the same origin.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it’s as good as real.

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