20 quotes
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
My Name Is Red (1998)
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
My Name Is Red (1998)
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
My Name Is Red (1998)
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
My Name Is Red (1998)
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
My Name Is Red (1998)
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
My Name Is Red (1998)
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
My Name Is Red (1998)
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
My Name Is Red (1998)
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
My Name Is Red (1998)
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
My Name Is Red (1998)
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
My Name Is Red (1998)
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
My Name Is Red (1998)
T feel like the Devil not because I’ve murdered two men, but because my portrait has been made in this fashion.
My Name Is Red (1998)
There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward.
My Name Is Red (1998)
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.
My Name Is Red (1998)
In actuality, we don’t look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, 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.
My Name Is Red (1998)
The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.
My Name Is Red (1998)
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in that paradise where happy mares and stallions live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
My Name Is Red (1998)
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favorite promontories.
My Name Is Red (1998)
A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”
My Name Is Red (1998)