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“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces to live behind prison bars. Thus the only way of escaping from that intolerable leisure was to set the trains running again in one's imagination and in filling the silence with the fancied tinkle of a doorbell, in practice obstinately mute.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“...once won critical and thus monetary value, recognized and easily recognizable, the artist has thereafter nothing to do but keep producing in a style that is, which is in large part the result of a technical innovation.”
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“The trouble today... is that... instead of leading to new and ever expanding visions tends to become precious-- better to be correct and successful... rather than risk wider horizons.”
― Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations
― Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations
“The process of discovery by the artist, however, though possibly based on similar needs and satisfactions, is rooted in his own development, and is incidental to it... Manet searching for [himself] found the Japanese art as a revelation which helped him in his own development”
― Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations
― Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations
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