A Quote by Shirin Neshat

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

Shirin Neshat

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Shirin Neshat
Iranian - Artist
Born: March 26, 1957

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.

Eve Ensler

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

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

Aberjhani

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Jehane Noujaim

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

Sinbad

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Peter Carey

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

John Cusack

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

Aamir Khan

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

Samantha Bee

If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.

John Oliver

Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.

Terry Teachout

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

Lauryn Hill

I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

Kat Graham

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

John Cho

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

Oscar Isaac

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent one. I don't remember when people started being called that or what it means. It reduces both writers and activists, it makes it seem as though a writer's job is to just keep people entertained with best-selling books and the activist's job to keep on repeating the same thing without a great deal of subtlety and intelligence. I don't think either is the case.

Arundhati Roy

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