Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I feel like it's all-encompassing, and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

I did painting before I did photography.

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.