352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows - I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

Image is an international language.

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.