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… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.' — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
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,… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
