My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment..

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance..

You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone in a fore….

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometim….

There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes ….

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful.

The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not jus….

I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It….

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expres….

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form..

My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express ….

We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as pe….

Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my ca….

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying….

I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmaris….

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to ….

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives..

I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture..

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment..

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics..

Nature has the most powerfully healing effect..