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.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
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