Isamu Quotes

#1. I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

Carl Van Vechten

#2. As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were. But instead of firing, the pilot saluted him. After the war, Halloran and that pilot, Isamu Kashiide, became dear friends.

Laura Hillenbrand

#3. We are a landscape of all we have seen

Isamu Noguchi

#4. Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Isamu Akasaki

#5. Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

Isamu Akasaki

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

Isamu Noguchi

#7. 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

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

#11. I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Isamu Akasaki

#12. To order space is to give it meaning.

Isamu Noguchi

#13. 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

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

#16. I am you, Umasi, and I am weak." the shadow spun around and began walking away. "In the end, either you will conquer me ... or I will conquer you.

Isamu Fukui

#17. Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.

Isamu Fukui

#18. 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

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

Isamu Noguchi

#20. I am always learning, always discovering.

Isamu Noguchi

#21. Art should become as one with its surroundings.

Isamu Noguchi

#22. It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness ...

Isamu Noguchi

#23. 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

#24. When death lies ahead, it's natural to look back.

Isamu Fukui

#25. Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

Isamu Fukui

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

Isamu Noguchi

#27. Appreciate the moment.

Isamu Noguchi

#28. 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

#29. In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Isamu Akasaki

#30. And with that, Umasi reached down and slung Zyid's lifeless body over his shoulder, stoically bearing the morbid burden in silence. Slowly, solemnly, the two brothers turned as one to face the warm, beckoning glow of the rising sun, together for one last time.

Isamu Fukui