Artist Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

9 Artist quotes by Marjane Satrapi

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Satrapi’s graphic storytelling is rooted in personal truth. These nine quotes let you see how she frames the artist’s duty to both reflect and reshape reality.

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Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

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Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

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Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

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For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one…

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I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a…

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You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise,…

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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso…

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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I…

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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

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I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I…

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Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

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I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to…

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A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

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I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it…

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I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you…

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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

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In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad…

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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind…

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