29 Quotes by Ruth Asawa

I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

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

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.

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.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

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.

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.

An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.