Citat ur Gemensamma rum

Excerpts and quotations from "Gemensamma rum" (Common Spaces, 1998) — a book of conversations about public art and architecture, written by art historian Peter Cornell and sculptor Sivert Lindblom.

"The public space is always a complex space — it belongs to everyone and no one. The art placed there must relate to this duality: it must be private enough to move us individually, and public enough to function as a common sign."

"I have always felt resistance to the term 'embellishment'. It implies that art is an addition, an ornament on something already finished. But the interesting thing happens when art is involved in defining the place from the beginning — when sculpture and architecture grow from the same original thought."

"Sculpture should be so natural in its place that one wonders if it was always there — and yet, when one stops and looks, one should be able to see that it contains something more."