My Name is Red

Author

Orhan Pamuk

Published

October 30, 2025

Highlights

I don’t want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning.

Início (Location 886)


“Blindness is silence. If you combine what I’ve just now said, the first and the second questions, ‘blindness’ will emerge. It’s the farthest one can go in illustrating; it is seeing what appears out of Allah’s own blackness.”

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‘signature’ and ‘style’ are but means of being brazenly and stupidly self-congratulatory about flawed work.”

Início (Location 1167)


brazenly used the perspectival method in the last picture. In this picture, objects weren’t depicted according to their importance in Allah’s mind, but as they appeared to the naked eye — the way the Franks painted.

Início (Location 7123)