Sublime

C’est sa propre vie que le peuple turc doit exposer dans ses musées, et non pas de mauvaises imitations de l’art occidental. Nos musées doivent exhiber notre vraie vie et non les fantasmes d’occidentalisation des riches. Mon musée est le produit de toute une vie, la mienne et celle de Füsun, et tout ce que je vous raconte est réel, Orhan Bey.

Apart from beautiful ladies like my mother, I cannot say I was very fond of adults in Istanbul, finding them in the main ugly, hairy, and coarse. They were too clumsy, too heavy, and too realistic. It could be they had once known something of a hidden second world, but they seemed to have lost their capacity for amazement and forgotten how to dream