Janet Echelman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Janet Echelman quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have.
“It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.”
“The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.”
“The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.”
“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.”
“Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.”
“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.”
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