Theaster Gates Quotes
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.
Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.
I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.
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.
I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."
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.
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.
