Academic Quote by 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 to it…

— Isamu Noguchi

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

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 is not…

— Isamu Noguchi

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

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. A dialogue…

— 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 is a…

— Isamu Noguchi