Quotes by Ruth Asawa - Page 1

Activism is wasteful.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Activism
Wasteful
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Art can only be taught by artists.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Art
Artist
Taught
Artists
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Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Art
Art Is
Deals
Directly
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I am interested in finding solutions to problems.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Solutions
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If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Art
Subjects
Teach
Teaches
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With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Capacity
Motor
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I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Hard
Mist
Sun
Mountains
Laugh
Seduce
Tries
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Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Done
Farming
Sculpture
Quite
Quite A Lot
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I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'
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Citizen
Identify
Japanese
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An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Juice
Looks
Valuable
Bottle
Egg
Newspaper
Sees
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I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Drawing
Sculpture
Extension
Intentions
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An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Artist
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Special
Person
Take
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Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Chose
Work Home Children
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Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Adversity
Internment
Today
Who I Am
Good Today I Am
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I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't delegate jobs if I'm not doing it.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Jobs
Teach
Delegate
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All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Ideas
Sculpture
Wire
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All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Wire
Idea
Simply
Loop
Only One Way
Sculptures
Shape
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I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material can do. And so that's why I keep exploring.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Exploring
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The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.
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Common
Garden
Ideas
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I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Space
Able
Air
Stealing
Wire
Anyone
Define
Enclose
Letting
Line
Remain
While
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If I hadn't spent all those years staying home with my kids and experimenting with materials that children could use, I would never have done the Ghirardelli and Hyatt fountains.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Materials
Staying
Experimenting
Spent
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I used to unwind the wire tags that labeled the crates of vegetables and took the fine brass and steel wires and braided and twisted them together to make bracelets, rings, and figures.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Brass
Figures
Rings
Steel
Twisted
Unwind
Vegetables
Wire
Labeled
Took
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We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now see as the forms within forms in my crocheted wire sculptures.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Dirt
Equipment
Feet
Figures
Hourglass
Patterns
Wire
Forms
Farm
Sculptures
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It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Sculpture
Steel
Craft
Define
Fifties
Something Else
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A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Frogs
Letters
Mermaid
Motherhood
Mythology
Significance
Symbolism
Women Me Long
Circle
Women Long Me
Meaning Of
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When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.
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Eight
Growing
Needs
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It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Amount
Bits
Given
Time Long Important
Begin
Time Use Your
Time Long Your
Count
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I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life - Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
Mathematician
Max
Painter
Stimulation
Life Great Me
Life Great Enough
Encountered
Fuller
Great Teachers
Required
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