Top 35 Theaster Gates Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Theaster Gates

#1. There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

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#2. I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?

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

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#5. Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Andrea Gibson

#6. The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

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#7. My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

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#8. I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

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#9. I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.

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#10. Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

Elizabeth Scott

#11. The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Mason Cooley

#12. Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material ... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

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#13. I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.

Adam Silvera

#14. 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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#15. If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.

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

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#17. Via money Europe could become political in five years

Jean Monnet

#18. 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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#19. Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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#22. I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

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#24. 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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#25. But maybe it's wrong of me to complain ... I'm alive after all ... and I lose an enemy or two every day ... cancer, apoplexy, gluttony ... it's a pleasure the number that pass on! ... I'm not hard to please ... a name! ... another! ... there are good things in life ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#26. Composing is improvisation slowed down.

Wayne Shorter

#27. We can smile when facing a challenge, if we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.

Ellen J. Barrier

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

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#29. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

Pete Seeger