Art can only be taught by artists. Ruth Asawa More Quotes by Ruth Asawa More Quotes From 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 keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth. Ruth Asawa eightgrowingneeds 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. Ruth Asawa gardencommonideas 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 sculpturewireideas 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 adversitywho-i-amtoday Art is doing. Art deals directly with life. Ruth Asawa art-isdealsart If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart. Ruth Asawa teachsubjectsart I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains. Ruth Asawa mountainslaughhardsun Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. Ruth Asawa likeyoufarmingdone Activism is wasteful. Ruth Asawa wastefulactivism 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 withouti-amgospace An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special. Ruth Asawa personthingsartistspecial 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 farmhangingseefeet 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 mewomenmotherhoodlong 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 finesteelvegetablestogether With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity. Ruth Asawa fullsenseyourart I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing. Ruth Asawa goingjustsculpturedrawing 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 whymoresomethingexpression 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 stonesomethingthoughtart I am interested in finding solutions to problems. Ruth Asawa findinginterestedi-amproblems 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 doingthinkyouwork
