Isamu Noguchi

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

— Isamu Noguchi

To order space is to give it meaning.

— Isamu Noguchi

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact…

— Isamu Noguchi

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but…

— Isamu Noguchi

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

— Isamu Noguchi

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It…

— Isamu Noguchi

The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It…

— Isamu Noguchi

I am always learning, always discovering.

— Isamu Noguchi

It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work.…

— Isamu Noguchi

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

— Isamu Noguchi

Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It…

— Isamu Noguchi

Appreciate the moment.

— Isamu Noguchi

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

— Isamu Noguchi

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness...

— Isamu Noguchi

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

— Isamu Noguchi

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is…

— Isamu Noguchi

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

— Isamu Noguchi

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

— Isamu Noguchi

I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

— Isamu Noguchi