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

There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.

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.

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

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

Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.

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