Orhan Pamuk Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Reality, Love Is

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.415, Faber & Faber

• Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Writing, Fiction

• ...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Real, Technology

• Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Leaving, Identity

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.22, Faber & Faber

• Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Lying, Eye

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