As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be… — Ali Banisadr Book Copy Share Image
People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than… — Ali Banisadr Artwork Copy Share Image
I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little… — Ali Banisadr Caught Copy Share Image
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Bird Copy Share Image
I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in… — Ali Banisadr Air Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a… — Ali Banisadr Archetype Copy Share Image
My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the… — Ali Banisadr Answers Copy Share Image
Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.… — Ali Banisadr Book Copy Share Image
Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting… — Ali Banisadr It takes time Copy Share Image
Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize… — Ali Banisadr Categorizing Copy Share Image
When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's… — Ali Banisadr Angry Copy Share Image
"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world… — Ali Banisadr Air Copy Share Image
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. — Ali Banisadr Happenings Copy Share Image
