Isamu Noguchi Quotes

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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

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

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 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.

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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

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

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

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi

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Born: November 17, 1904

Died: December 30, 1988 (aged 84)

Bio: Isamu Noguchi was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

Known for:

Black Sun (1969)
Octetra (1968)
Sinai (1967)
Even the Centipede

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