"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."

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Source : Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

Isamu Noguchi

#Artist Quotes #Earth Quotes #Contact Quotes

“Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”
“People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.”
“I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.”
“All the broken hearts in the world still beat”

Source : Song: Girls Chase Boys, Album: Lights Out, 2014
“I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.”
“You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.”
“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”
“Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.”

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