The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did. — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It is not… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever. — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
