Marjane Satrapi Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mother, Hard Work, Math

• Image is an international language.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Language, International Language, International

• 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.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Brother, Book, Language

  Source: collider.com

• Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Talking, Drawing

  "Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

• Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Differences, Filters, Might

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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