Isamu Noguchi F Quotes & Sayings

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease. — Anthony Fauci

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

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

We are a landscape of all we have seen — Isamu Noguchi

But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course. — Frederic Bastiat

Capitalism presumes that apart from our rational insight we possess a traditional endowment of morals, which has been tested by evolution but not designed by our intelligence. — Friedrich Hayek

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

And that, too, was the truth, that a man cannot step back from a fight and stay a man. We make much in this life if we are able. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. I could not walk away. — Bernard Cornwell

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

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

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me". — Josemaria Escriva

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

Sarah's right. We punish ourselves so much in our own imaginations. We convince ourselves everything we do, everything we think, is wrong.

For eighteen years I've believed what other people told me about what was right and what was wrong. From now. I'm deciding. — Robin Talley

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

She's actually a friend of yours... Myosotis Terra. And you wouldn't know, actually. Or to be precise, you wouldn't remember. - Skulduggery (Myosotis Terra) — Derek Landy

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

All right Bebe, we're in trouble. You get that don' you? — Christine Feehan

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi. — Carl Van Vechten

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