A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat. Marjane Satrapi More Quotes by Marjane Satrapi More Quotes From Marjane Satrapi 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. Marjane Satrapi problem artist world I'm not a religious person at all. Marjane Satrapi religious-person persons religious Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure. Marjane Satrapi cancer sick smoking I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could. Marjane Satrapi i-realized book The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. Marjane Satrapi drawing writing firsts The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs. Marjane Satrapi iran iraq pigs I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it. Marjane Satrapi publishing-house novelists hate To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. Marjane Satrapi behinds speak heart I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened. Marjane Satrapi profession happened want Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Marjane Satrapi drawing ducks mean In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! Marjane Satrapi chance giving people Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. Marjane Satrapi writing mean thinking The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons? Marjane Satrapi political house long Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet. Marjane Satrapi growing-up want teacher I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere? Marjane Satrapi news-stories country thinking I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. Marjane Satrapi nice government america Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..." - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that. Marjane Satrapi law hair father I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think. Marjane Satrapi rebel thinking If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better. Marjane Satrapi love-is people thinking I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist. Marjane Satrapi feminist men mean
