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

- Theaster Gates

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

- Theaster Gates

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 under…

- Theaster Gates

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

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 …

- Theaster Gates

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. Rath…

- Theaster Gates

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

- Theaster Gates

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

- Theaster Gates

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

- Theaster Gates