Top 28 Quotes About Shirin Neshat

#1. Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

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

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#3. Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

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#4. Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

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#5. Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

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#6. I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.

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#7. Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

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#8. In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.

Tom Kelly

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#9. Human beings are capable of the kind of love and loyalty that transcends not only the physical debasement but even the spiritual weariness of the years of sorrow.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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#10. Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

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#11. I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.

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#12. What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes - wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth.

Deidre Huesmann

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#13. Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba section of a marching band.

Dennis Vickers

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#14. 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.

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#15. If there's one thing every man loves to do, it's telling a woman how to do something. They

Lisa Kleypas

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#16. It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Antoine Rivarol

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#17. There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

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#18. Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Jerry Saltz

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

Eugene McCarthy

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.

Ann Burton

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