19 Quotes by Isamu Noguchi

I am always learning, always discovering.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

To order space is to give it meaning.

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

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.

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

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.

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

Appreciate the moment.