Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I used to draw a lot.

I've always been a doodler.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I like creating images.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.