Isamu Noguchi Quotes

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• Appreciate the moment.
• The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.
• It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness...
• Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.
• For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which…
• Art should become as one with its surroundings.
• The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
• When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.
• You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.
• The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.
• Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search…
• I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.
• To order space is to give it meaning.
• 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…
• 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 attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely…
• When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to…
• We are a landscape of all we have seen.

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