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

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• Ruth Asawa:

  Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

• Ruth Asawa:

  All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to d

• Ruth Asawa:

  Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the inter

• Ruth Asawa:

  I used to unwind the wire tags that labeled the crates of vegetables and took the fine brass and st

• Ruth Asawa:

  With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

• Ruth Asawa:

  I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawi

• Ruth Asawa:

  I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material

• Ruth Asawa:

  It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft

• Ruth Asawa:

  I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

• Ruth Asawa:

  I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't