“I approach my 79th birthday this month with growing awareness. I celebrate it by building a garden in my place of reuge in Shikoku. It is a gift to the future, and to the people who harbored my mother and gave me my years of childhood. How true it is that all things worthwhile must end as gifts. What other reason is there for art?”
Isamu Noguchi (quoted in Hayden Herrera, Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi)