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.

- Janet Echelman

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

- Janet Echelman

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.

- Janet Echelman

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

- Janet Echelman

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

- Janet Echelman

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 o…

- Janet Echelman

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with…

- Janet Echelman

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 resou…

- Janet Echelman

My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.

- Janet Echelman