Art Quote by eL Seed

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

— John Updike

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously…

— Hassan Blasim

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

— John Abizaid

“Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the…

— Rabih Alameddine

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works…

— Massimiliano Gioni

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word…

— Elliott Colla

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

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to…

— Ayshay

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

— Craig Thompson

“This partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even…

— Yuval Noah Harari