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Janet Echelman Quotes

American - Artist | February 19, 1966 -

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

Time You New Stumble Wonderful

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

Life Art I Am Team Think Possible

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Myself Start Limits Compromise Idea

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

Nature Journey Water Me Swimming

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

Beautiful Art Experience People You

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Life River City Amsterdam Last Four

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

Space Believe You I Believe Belong

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

Work Respect Ideas Learn Attention

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Career Intellectual Emotional Been

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Art Powerful Because Hardest Most

In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.

History Fishing Red Discovery White

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Landscape Engineers Two Pay Lighting

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