Brilliance
On View   Original Collection

Brilliance

1982
Basalt
I attack the stone with violence. Is this to tame it or to awaken myself? To fulfill the potential in the stone I seek a power to cope by any means. Destruction is then the road to creation. Brilliance is the result of lucky breaks, but certainly not chance.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.