For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Interpretation
Drawing is an essential part of life for the author, signifying its profound importance.
In this quote, Marjane Satrapi emphasizes the vital role that drawing plays in her life, equating it to a question of survival. She suggests that the act of creating art is not just a pastime but a fundamental necessity that sustains her existence, highlighting the deep connection between creativity and life itself.
In practice
In an art class, to inspire students to embrace their creativity.
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.
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.
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.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
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