Isamu Noguchi Quotes & Sayings

I am always learning, always discovering. — 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 to a whole. — Isamu Noguchi

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

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

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

To order space is to give it meaning. — Isamu Noguchi

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

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

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness ... — Isamu Noguchi

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — 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 which will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products. — Isamu Noguchi

Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter - into yourself. — Isamu Noguchi

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

Art should become as one with its surroundings. — Isamu Noguchi

Appreciate the moment. — Isamu Noguchi

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist. — Isamu Noguchi