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

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

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

- 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 is doing. Art deals directly with life.

- Ruth Asawa

Art can only be taught by artists.

- Ruth Asawa