Theaster Gates Quotes

• It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

  Theaster Gates

  Shapes, Capacity, Materials

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

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  Creating, People, Creative

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• I believe that beauty is a basic service.

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  Believe, I Believe

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• 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.

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  Buddhist, Race, Class

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Artist, Trying

  Source: chicagoist.com

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

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Allowing

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Artist, Museums, Ideas

  Source: chicagoist.com

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

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Willingness

  "Conversation With Theaster Gates: On Finding the Sweetest Fodder for His Imagination". Interview with Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2014.

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• What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Museums, Stuff

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

  Theaster Gates

  Ethics, Modernism

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Museums

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

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  Space, Years, People

  Source: chicagoist.com

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

  Theaster Gates

  Practice, Kind, Solemnity

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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