Marjane Satrapi Quotes

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

The image is an image.

Style is the image of character.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.