"My Name Is Red"

[fiefoe]

<'Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.'>

• To know is to remember that you've seen. To see is to know without remembering.
• When the worldly realm was repeatedly presented through the same stories and pictures, as if time did not flow...

<giaour: A nonbeliever; an infidel.>

• These men who commission the works, they also want us to know that simply existing in this world is a very special, very mysterious event... They're attempting to terrify us by being creatures of mystery.
• Their likenesses had imbued then, with such magic, had so distinguished them, that for a moment among the paintings 1 felt flawed and impotent. Had I been depicted in this fashion, it seemed, I'd better understand why I existed in this world."
• What filled my Enishte with fear was the notion of situating at the center of the page-and thereby, the world-something other than what God had intended.
• This devilish idea: What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness , not something we know in all its illumination.
  

__ Allah created this worldly realm the way an intelligent seven-year-old boy would want to see it.
__ To God belongs the East and the West. May He protect us from the will of the pure and unadulterated.

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