Isamu Noguchi Quotes

• To order space is to give it meaning.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Order, Space, Giving

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Ideas, Space, Sculpture

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• We are a landscape of all we have seen.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Inspirational, Life, Garden

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

  Isamu Noguchi

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Children, Artist, Being An Artist

  "A sculptor's world".

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• It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Giving

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Art should become as one with its surroundings.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Life, Art, Surroundings

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Essence, Space, Perception

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Appreciate the moment.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Life, Appreciation, Appreciate

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• 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 a whole.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Garden, Space, Site

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• I am always learning, always discovering.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Discovering, Always Learning

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Clever, Absence, Wanted

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Spontaneous

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It is not the quick solutions. It is not something you learn and apply. After all, it is a search you have to enter into yourself.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Way, Made, Realising

  "Spaces of the Mind: Isamu Noguchi's Dance Designs".

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• 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 will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Artist, Earth, Contact

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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

  Isamu Noguchi

  Restriction, Take Time, Perceive

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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

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  Art, Garden, Doe

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• 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 least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Men, Unique

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• 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 indecision.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Lying, Difficult And Easy, Ink

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• 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 and not from something you learn and apply.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Artist, Want

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