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 forest, or sometimes looking at the stars. There's really something very powerful about nature that's endlessly mysterious and a reminder of our humanity, our mortality, of more existential things that we usually manage to not get involved with very often because of daily activity.
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.
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. - Shirin Neshat
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.
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…
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
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… - Shirin Neshat
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…
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 …
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