Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

Through art, you create your own world.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.