Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

- Ruth Asawa

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 w…

- Ruth Asawa

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 ke…

- Ruth Asawa

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

Art can only be taught by artists.

- Ruth Asawa

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

- Ruth Asawa

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