Best known for his ceramics, Rudy was also a prolific illustrator, using multiple mediums including pen and ink, crayon, oil and chalk pastel, pencil, and creating digital drawings later in life.

You're constantly posing questions that you try to answer. The action between the question and the solution is what I think is the creative act. The fumbling around and trying things, and making a line and erasing it, going back and drawing the line, and saying "That's better." You've made some kind of progress in answering that question. It tends to lead to something else, but you're building all the time, you're always looking for those answers. I think that’s essentially what art is.

— Rudy Autio

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