Women are looked at. But as an artist, I had permission to look back. Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare. - Molly Crabapple

You take photos. Drawings you make. Cameras steal life force. Paintings, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, give you more.

Drawing is disruptive. You're producing when you're expected to consume.

I think one of the problems that Americans often have when we're thinking about the Middle East is that Americans often only see images of the Middle East that come from war. So Americans might not realize that there are actually hundreds of thousands of people living in Raqqa, just like normal people, and if you take that awareness away, then it becomes very easy "Oh, bomb them all."