Ruth Asawa famous quotes

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.
-- Ruth Asawa

#Garden #Ideas #Common

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 earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.
-- Ruth Asawa

#Eight #Growing #Earth

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.
-- Ruth Asawa

#Art #Art Is #Deals

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

#Adversity #Who I Am #Today

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
-- Ruth Asawa

#Ideas #Wire #Sculpture

Art can only be taught by artists.
-- Ruth Asawa

#Art #Artist #Taught

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

#Art #Teach #Subjects

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.