Marjane Satrapi Quotes

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.