Isamu Noguchi Quotes

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

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

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

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

To order space is to give it meaning.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

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

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

I am always learning, always discovering.

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

Appreciate the moment.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

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

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

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.