Quotes from My Name is Red

"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."

"If we fall sway to the Devil and continue, betraying everything that has come before in a futile attempt to attain a style and European character, we will still fail [...] They'd have quipped that the Ottomans have given up being Ottoman and would no longer fear us."


"Proudly sign your names to your imitation paintings. The old masters of Herat tried to depict the world the way God saw it, and to conceal their individuality they never signed their names. You, however, are condemned to signing your names to conceal your lack of individuality."


There are other good quotes, I should have written them down at the time.