Top 100 Hiroshi Quotes
#1. humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#2. If people from their own country are killed, they may express surprise, grief, anger, and sympathy. But if ten thousand people are killed in a distant, far-off land, they will not be the slightest bit affected, particularly if it was their own doing.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#3. [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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#5. Anyway, what does "wrong" mean? Who decides what's wrong and what's right?
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#6. Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#8. I picked up the umeboshi from my tray and popped it into my mouth. I made a show of savoring the flavor. Truth be known, it was sour enough to twist my mouth as tight as a crab's ass at low tide, but I wasn't about to give her the satisfaction of seeing that.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#9. Like magnets: opposites attract. People are the same. Everyone has their flaws, their quirks. Rub them together, you get friction. It's the places where they're different that locks them together.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#10. There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they're the righteous ones.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#12. Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#13. For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger project. It was as if I were carried along by a stream - even though I believed that the current was taking me in the right direction.
Hiroshi Hamaya
#14. Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#15. All I could hear were screams, sobbing, and "Fuck!" Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! The profanities were flying as thick as the bullets.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#17. Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary - too easy to rewrite.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#18. People believe in life after death because they are afraid of dying... But I do not believe in life after death BECAUSE I am afraid of dying.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#19. I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#20. there were only three kinds of battle to begin with: fucked up, seriously fucked up, and fucked up beyond all recognition. No use panicking about it.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#21. 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 keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#22. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#23. You believe that some people have dementia and some people do not, but that is not correct. All people have dementia - some are simply in worse condition than others. After all, most people with dementia are unaware that anything is wrong with them.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#24. Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#25. If I were afraid of getting hurt, nothing would change. Ibis
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#26. 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
#27. The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#28. When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#29. The armored infantry was Santa Claus, the battle was out Christmas. What else for the elves to do on Christmas Eve but to let their hair down and drink a a little eggnog.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#30. I was in the valley of the shadow of death, no two fucking ways about it, but I had Rita at my side.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#31. The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#32. Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#34. Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness.
In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed.
Spring flowers, winter snows.
There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.
Saisho Hiroshi
#35. Is it true the green tea they serve in Japan at the end of your meal comes free?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#36. I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#39. The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
#40. There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
#41. 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 of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#42. 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 titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#43. It is easy to disappoint humans. It is easy to irritate them. It is easy to make them mad. None of that is at all challenging. So we take no pleasure from it. But making people happy is different. That is extremely difficult.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#44. Death comes quick, in the beat of a heart, and he ain't picky about who he takes.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#45. It was like a software if/then routine: If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#46. If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#47. 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 entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#48. Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#49. You don't want to be human?" "If behaving in a manner bereft of logic and morals that leads to conflict is a fundamental attribute of humanity, then I do not want to be human.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#50. Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#51. Of course, there were only three kinds of battle to begin with: fucked up, seriously fucked up, and fucked up beyond all recognition
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#52. If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#53. Yosuke: When did you like yourself best?
Yuu: When you didn't know me.
Hiroshi Ishikawa
#54. The only things that move their hearts are tragedies that affect them personally or affect people close to them.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#55. Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
#56. However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#57. Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'
Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
David Sheff
#58. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#59. I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of civilization. That's what I did as a show at the Palais de Tokyo, the 33 scenarios of how this civilization ends.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#60. to keep the Mimics away. He carried all-natural coffee beans you couldn't find
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#62. If there's a heaven, it's a dark place. A cold place. A lonely place.
Sakurazaka Hiroshi
#63. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#64. I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#65. there were no more living legends, and thus the young grew up knowing they would never become heroes themselves.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#66. Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#67. It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and Hiroshi, so intense a terror that afterwards it seemed almost funny.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#69. It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#70. Sooner or later, everybody dies. I figure it's best to spend your life doing what you enjoy. Every morning when I stand and look into the mirror, that time is still my own. I wonder how much longer that will last.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#71. For me, it's my great honour that many people use blue LEDs or LED lightings now. So, we can contribute to the energy savings for the humans, so I'm very, very happy to contribute to the energy saving issues.
Hiroshi Amano
#72. That's not true. People are more affected by true stories than they are fiction. You said so yourself." "What I said was that people have a tendency to call whatever moves them 'the truth.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#74. Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#75. 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 is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#76. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#77. You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message,
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#78. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#79. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#80. Well, anyway Rita, I have to run, some, uh, Bechdel tests on your jacket.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#82. There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#83. My body never changed, but the OS that ran it had seen a total overhaul.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#84. Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#85. [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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#86. I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#87. I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.
Hiroshi Amano
#88. I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.
Hiroshi Hamaya
#89. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#90. No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#93. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#94. Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#95. But sometimes he's right. 'Nothing happens if you just dream,' he said. 'You need the motivation to make your dreams reality.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#96. If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#97. 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.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#98. Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#99. If I live - will you let me take a proper picture of you? No tongues sticking out, no middle fingers?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#100. If you desire the magical powers that led the 808 Tanuki, which are trapped in the old cave of Kumayama, say the words, Look into others' heart of hearts with your own heart to be destined to lead those who are not human.
Hiroshi Shiibashi
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