Best 10 quotes of Theaster Gates on MyQuotes

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.