Theaster Gates Inspirational Quotes (6)

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

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

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.

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

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