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

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."

I feel like political engagement is something that people, if they’re so inclined, all people should do...It’s not something that’s just for special, branded activists. It’s in part being a citizen.

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