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

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

- Shirin Neshat

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

- Shirin Neshat

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

- 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…

- Shirin Neshat

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

- Shirin Neshat

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

- 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 …

- Shirin Neshat