Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God, " the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!