352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It’s a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don’t have total happiness. People always say that. But you don’t have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

I’m someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

Night brings good counsel”, my grandmother always told me.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It’s a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, ‘Do I like everybody?’ And the answer was, ‘No.’ So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I’m against them too.

I don’t consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

I’m not a politician. I don’t know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

In any case, it’s the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

I’m very open and never write what I’m going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.