It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions… — 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
