Noguchi Quotes

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

Carl Van Vechten

#2. Inventors don't have time for married life.

Nikola Tesla

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

Isamu Noguchi

#4. Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage ... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy. - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

Andy Kerckhoff

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

Isamu Noguchi

#6. Ask us not whether we are right or wrong, happy or sad, sane or mad.

Yone Noguchi

#7. We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Irrfan Khan

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Isamu Noguchi

#13. It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michelle Forbes

#14. For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.

Lucas Grabeel

#16. The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

R.N. Prasher

#17. If you take your eye off the horizon to view the next mile that is where you might end up

Mike O'Sullivan

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

#21. People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.

Ainsley Earhardt

#22. 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

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

Isamu Noguchi

#24. I am always learning, always discovering.

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

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

Isamu Noguchi

#27. 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

#28. I sing the song of my heartstrings, alone in the eternal muteness, in the face of God.

Yone Noguchi

#29. I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

Joanna Newsom

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

Isamu Noguchi

#31. Appreciate the moment.

Isamu Noguchi

#32. Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self. pg. 45

Sherry Argov

#33. 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

#34. I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

Elisabeth Shue