fiefoe

The murder mystery is ultimately uninteresting. What is interesting is contradictions in art.

What passes from the maiden, the focus of the master miniaturist's love, to his picture is not ultimately imperfection or flaw but a new artistic rule. Because... everyone will begin to depict the faces of maidens just like that particular beautiful maiden.
The horse stood before me as if it were a real horse, but somewhere in my mind I also knew it was an illustration; being caught between these two thoughts was enchanting and aroused in me a sense of wholeness and perfection.
For if you begin to draw a horse differently, you begin to see the world differently.
"To paint is to remember."
Hundreds of years hence, men looking at our world through the illustrations we've made won't understand anything.
Seeing had become a variety of memory.
We .. look (in pictures) for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is precisely what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Also:

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
Time doesn't flow if you don't dream.
Humbly accepting this truth makes life easier. Indeed, it is precisely because it makes life easier that modesty is such a highly prized virtue in our part of the world.
the distance and eloquence of a jest

"My Name Is Red" [.]