Ruth Asawa Quotes

Ruth Asawa
American Sculptor
Born: Jan 24, 1926
Died: Aug 5, 2013
Am Art Define Had Work You
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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
Something More Material Interested Exploring Keep Expression Why
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
Art Thought Else Define Out Something Something Else Steel Traditional Craft Stone Fifties Sculpture Early Starting
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
Work Home Had Studio Learn Because Understand How Children Wanted Them Chose
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
Home Spent Those Kids Would Staying Could Never Materials Years Done Children Experimenting Use
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.' Ruth Asawa
Myself Citizen Universe Longer Identify American Japanese
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them. Ruth Asawa
Valuable Something Sees Bottle Looks Juice Egg Artist Them Newspaper
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
Today Good Adversity Sometimes Would Through Had Like Am Been Who Internment
Activism is wasteful. Ruth Asawa
Activism Wasteful
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
Space Air Define Able Stealing Remain Take Wire Without Am Enclose Go Line Anyone While Letting
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
Made Farm Our See Dirt Wire Feet Hourglass Make Within Equipment Off Endless Hanging Patterns Forms Sculptures Used Figures Now
Art is doing. Art deals directly with life. Ruth Asawa
Life Art Directly Deals Doing

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