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10 quotes by Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates (born 1973 Chicago) is an American Social Practice Installation artist. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices.
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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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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