Lines Quote by Edith Wharton

“I wish that, the way secret manuscripts ought to, the thing arrived on our laps bound in Moroccan leather, dusty and smelling of Muscilin…

— Derek Grzelewski

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest…

— Pico Iyer

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are…

— Freya Stark

I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first…

— Craig Thompson

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is…

— James Fenton

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages…

— Lynda Barry

“The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds.…

— Lawrence Norfolk

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

— Barack Obama

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we…

— Geraldine Brooks

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event…

— Hamid Dabashi

“There is traditional mosaic work and glazed tiles in geometric designs, but there is also a smattering of Western consumer goods: ‘several fine European…

— Linda Colley