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“To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Dreams are good for three things:
ALIF:
You want something but you just can’t ask for it. So you’ll say that you’ve dreamed about it. In this manner, you can ask for what you want without actually asking for it.

BA:
You want to harm someone. For example, you want to slander a woman. So, you’ll say that such-and-such woman is committing adultery or that such-and-such pasha is pilfering wine by the jug. I dreamed it, you’ll say. In this fashion, even if they don’t believe you, the mere mention of the sinful deed is almost never forgotten.

DJIM:
You want something, but you don’t even know what it is. So, you’ll describe a confusing dream. Your friends or family will immediately interpret the dream and tell you what you need or what they can do for you. For example, they’ll say: You need a husband, a child, a house…”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red