Neshat Shirin Quotes & Sayings

Say something. Please, say anything, just don't hide your thoughts from me. — Alexandra Bracken

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I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture. — Shirin Neshat

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black. — Joan Rivers

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 could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form. — Shirin Neshat

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. — Shirin Neshat

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money. — Shirin Neshat

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult. — Shirin Neshat

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives. — Shirin Neshat

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers. — Shirin Neshat

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space. — Shirin Neshat

I love being around cool, fun guys, so I've always enjoyed talking to gay men. Maybe it's because I'm an inherent flirt, but it just feels very natural. — David Walton

I'm an artist, I'm not an activist. — Shirin Neshat

I think of myself, an Iranian/American artist, and wonder what would I want if I'm ever imprisoned by the Iranian government for the work that I make? I answer: I would hope that the United States government comes to my rescue. — Shirin Neshat

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 respect. — Shirin Neshat

If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson

Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we? — Dennis Miller

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian. — Shirin Neshat

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas. — Shirin Neshat

It's very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose. — Karin Slaughter

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 case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere ... — Shirin Neshat

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful — Shirin Neshat

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it. — Randy Newman

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist. — Mark McKinnon

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. — Shirin Neshat

I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny at all; I simply wake up and here I am. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment. — 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

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing. — Jacob M. Appel

She fought back an urge to curl her finger s into claws or slap a sign on luc's back reading, MINE! and just in case they missed seeing that one, she'd put another, permanent one someplace lower. but now that she had time to thin the second tattoo wouldn't be on his ass, and it wouldn't be made of chocolate, and -
damn it
-Corinne D'Alessandro — Christine Warren

There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal. — Shirin Neshat

You may disagree. Personal history and national history do not always overlap, a point often overlooked in some of the broad strokes applied to the SG50 celebrations. But do consider your choices. In the age of Buzzfeed, we love lists. Make your own. No two lists will be the same, but collectively, they all say the same thing. They are all in search of a soul. — Neil Humphreys