"It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness..."

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Source : Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

Isamu Noguchi

#Giving Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Weight Quotes

“The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.”
“The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.”
“My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.”
“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.”
“[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.”
“I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.”
“As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.”

Source : Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.41, Harmony
“I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.”

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