Hiroshi Quotes & Sayings

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

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

If I were afraid of getting hurt, nothing would change. Ibis — Hiroshi Yamamoto

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist." — Hiroshi Sugimoto

But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of adrenaline don't survive. In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about. You knew she was no good for you, but you couldn't shake her. You had to find a way to get along, because she wasn't going anywhere. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Our enemy may have evolved the ability to rewind time, but humanity had evolved a few tricks of its own. There were people who could keep a Jacket in tip-top condition, people who could conjure up strategies and handle logistics, people who could provide support on the front lines, and last but not least, people who were natural-born killers — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Death comes when memories are lost. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

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

Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

My body never changed, but the OS that ran it had seen a total overhaul. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

If I live - will you let me take a proper picture of you? No tongues sticking out, no middle fingers? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary - too easy to rewrite. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

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

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

How many loops is this for you? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

They ate earth and shat out poison, leaving behind a lifeless wasteland. The alien intelligence that had created them had mastered space travel and learned to send information through time. Now they were taking our world and turning it into a facsimile of their own, every last tree, flower, insect, animal, and human be damned. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

Where did this baseless fear that robots would attack humans come from? Why were there so many stories about robots and humans fighting? Did they only exist because that was how mankind had always lived? Did we simply see ourselves in these humanoid machines? Were we not simply afraid of our own reflections? — Hiroshi Yamamoto

Is cooking dangerous?"
Most would answer no. But what is a gas range but a short - range flame thrower? Any number of flammable materials might lie waiting beneath the average kitchen sink. Shelves lined with pots could weaken and fall in an avalanche of iron and steel. A butcher's knife could kill as easily as a dagger.
Yet few people would consider cooking a dangerous profession, and indeed, the actual danger is remote. Anyone who has spent any time in a kitchen is familiar with the inherent risks, such as they are, and knows what can be done safely and what can't. Never throw water on an oil fire, keep the knife pointed away from your carotid artery, don't use rat poison when the recipe calls for
parmesan cheese. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

It was like a software if/then routine: If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

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

Yosuke: When did you like yourself best?
Yuu: When you didn't know me. — Hiroshi Ishikawa

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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

If there's a heaven, it's a dark place. A cold place. A lonely place. — Sakurazaka Hiroshi

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 I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it! — Hiroshi Sugimoto

Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

At the end of the day, every man has to wipe his own ass. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

On the next clear night, look up in the direction of the constellation humanity calls Cancer. Between the pincers of the right claw of that giant crab in the sky sits a faint star. No matter how hard you stare, you won't see it with the naked eye. It can only be viewed through a telescope with a thirty-meter aperture. Even if you could travel at the speed of light, fast enough to circle the earth seven and a half times in a single second, it would take over forty years to reach that star. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

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

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

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

and all who trained, slept, and shat within its walls. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

But sometimes he's right. 'Nothing happens if you just dream,' he said. 'You need the motivation to make your dreams reality. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

Human thoughts are digital. Most people see things as 0 or 1, as black or white. They see nothing in between. All chemicals are dangerous. You are either friend or foe. If you aren't left-wing, you're right. If you aren't conservative, you're liberal. Everything that great man says must be true. Everyone who thinks differently from us is evil. Everyone in that country - even the babies - is evil. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

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

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

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

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

A window of opportunity might present itself in tomorrow's battle. The odds of that happening may be 0.1 percent, or even 0.01 percent, but if I could improve my combat skills even the slightest bit- if that window were to open even a crack- I'd find a way to force it open wide. If I could learn to jump every hurdle this little track meet of death threw at me, maybe someday I'll wake up in a world with a tomorrow. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

My art has gained some high value. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games. — Hiroshi Yamauchi

I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies. — Hiroshi Yamauchi

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

You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message, — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

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

Who taught you to pilot a Jacket like that?"
"You did, Sergeant. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Anyway, what does "wrong" mean? Who decides what's wrong and what's right? — Hiroshi Ishizaki

Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

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

I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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

In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post. — Sadao Araki

The human body is a funny machine. When you want to move something - say, your arm - the brain actually sends two signals at the same time: "More power!" and "Less power!" The operating system that runs the body automatically holds some power back to avoid overexerting and tearing itself apart. Not all machines have that built - in safety feature. You can point a car at a wall, slam the accelerator to the floor, and the car will crush itself against the wall until the engine is destroyed or runs out of gas.
Martial arts use every scrap of strength the body has at its disposal. In martial arts training, you punch and shout at the same time. Your "Shout louder!" command helps to override the "Less power!" command. With practice, you can throttle the amount of power your body holds back. In essence, you're learning to channel
the body's power to destroy itself. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

You were just a piece on the board, and I was the piece that replaced you. Nothing more than the false hero the world needed. And now this good-for-nothing world was going to push me across the same bloodstained, smoke-filled battlefield.

While I live and breathe, humanity will never fall. I promise you. It may take a dozen years, but I will win this war for you. Even if you won't be here to see it. You were the only person I wanted to protect, and you were gone. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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

Generals were early to bed, early to rise, always brushing their teeth after every meal, never skipping a morning shave. All they had to do was sit back in Nagano drawing up their battle plans. One order from them and us mortals on the front lines would move like pawns across a chessboard to our grisly fates. I'd like to see just one of them here with us in the mud. We had our own rules down here. Which is probably why they stayed away. If one of them showed, I'd see to it a stray bullet put them on the Killed In Action list. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

to keep the Mimics away. He carried all-natural coffee beans you couldn't find — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

If you flipped a switch in the back of your brain, you could watch a second go by like the frames of a movie. Once you figured out what would be happening ten frames later, you could take whatever steps you needed to turn the situation to your advantage. All at a subconscious level. In battle, you couldn't count on anyone who didn't understand how to break down time. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Even on the path we walk everyday, we can step on differents spots.
just because it's the same path doesn't mean it always has the same scenery.
Isn't that good enough?
or is that not enough...
Because that's all there is?

just because it's the same path doesn't mean it always has the same scenery
Isn't that... good enough? — Hiroshi Mori

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

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

[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

One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

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

Well, anyway Rita, I have to run, some, uh, Bechdel tests on your jacket. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

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

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

Is it true the green tea they serve in Japan at the end of your meal comes free? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

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

The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it. — Hiroshi Hamaya