Activist Quote by Shirin Neshat Download Open image “I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.” — Shirin Neshat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activist Art Artist
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that. — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be… — Chris Jordan 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
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
