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 More Quotes by Ruth Asawa More Quotes From Ruth Asawa 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 understand work home children 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 never done home children 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 you important time long I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.' Ruth Asawa citizen american myself universe An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them. Ruth Asawa newspaper juice artist looks 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 my-life great me life