I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
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… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
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