try things, make mistakes (17 November 2016)

Noguchi working on the plaster original of Mu, 1950

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, Red Cube, 1968

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

- Isamu Noguchi

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

- Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi's playscape Octetra, 1968

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

- Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi, Bell child, 1950