-- from Muḥ̣ammad ibn Maḥ̣mūd al-Āmulī, Nafā’is al-funūn, quoted in Sir Thomas W. Arnold, Painting in Islam: A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture (Gorgias Press: 2004), p. 2.
Monday, September 10, 2007
what I've been reading instead of my homework
A wise man has said: “Writing is a spiritual geometry, wrought by a material instrument.” And another has said: “Writing is the offspring of thought, the lamp of remembrance, the tongue of him that is far off, and the life of him whose age has been blotted out.”
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