What others have said about the Angel
Magnificent…it will be the symbol of Gateshead …A fantastic, magical, mystical thing, it can say all kinds of things to all kinds of people." – Janet Street-Porter, journalist and broadcaster
"Maybe the Angel of the North will embrace travellers with those wings and tell them that, wherever they live, here is homecoming" – Beatrix Campbell, journalist, author and playwright
"It is a witness to life at the end of the 20th century. The car is a human body isolated in a bubble, not communicating with anyone else. The Angel is trying to ask ‘is that all we can be?’" – Lord Gowrie, former Chairman of the Arts Council