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 just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security.
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.
In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment. - Shirin Neshat
In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.
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 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 …
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 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 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 …
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