I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the difference between the simplicity of political solutions and the complex nature of artistic perspectives.
Marjane Satrapi's quote highlights the contrast between the brushstrokes of politicians, who often provide simplistic answers to multifaceted issues, and artists like herself, who delve into the complexities of life and society. She suggests that while politicians may simplify complicated questions for public consumption, artists seek deeper understanding and expression of those very complexities, often questioning societal norms and offering nuanced views that provoke thought and reflection.
In practice
In a discussion about the role of creativity in problem-solving, one might quote this to emphasize the depth of artistic thought.
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
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.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
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.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful._x000D_ If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful._x000D_ If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.
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