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

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

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

- Theaster Gates

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

- Theaster Gates

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

- 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

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

- Theaster Gates

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 complexitie…

- Theaster Gates