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I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I was enlightened already or not. So I said, Yes, I am enlightened, and then I studied quickly to catch up.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 23
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Tōkyō
Sugimoto Hiroshi
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[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.
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I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.
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It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
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The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.
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My art has gained some high value.
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Art always helps religion it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
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Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.
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When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.
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I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.
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If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.
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I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
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To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.
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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 human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.
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[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.
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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.
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To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
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Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.
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People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.
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Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.
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I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.
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