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 people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.
Nature has the most powerfully healing effect. - Shirin Neshat
Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.
- Shirin Neshat
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form. - Shirin Neshat
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives. - Shirin Neshat
Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. - Shirin Neshat
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to … - Shirin Neshat
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to …
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 … - Shirin Neshat
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 …
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… - Shirin Neshat
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…
Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful - Shirin Neshat
Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful
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. - Shirin Neshat
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.
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