Orientalism Quotes in Disgraced
I think it’s a little weird. That you want to paint me after seeing a painting of a slave.
About me being a white woman with no right to be using Islamic forms? I think you’re wrong about that.
You know what you’re going to be accused of… […] Orientalism.
The Islamic tiling tradition, Isaac? Is a doorway to the most extraordinary freedom. And which only comes through a kind of profound submission. In my case, of course it’s not submission to Islam but to the formal language. The pattern. The repetition. And the quiet that this work requires of me? It’s extraordinary.
The work you’re doing with the Islamic tradition is important and new. It needs to be seen. Widely.
Moor? Haven’t heard that word in a minute.
So there you are in your six-hundred-dollar Charvet shirt, like Velázquez’s brilliant apprentice-slave in his lace collar, adorned in the splendors of the world you're now so clearly a part of… And yet... […] The question remains […] Of your Place.
I picked up the recipe when I was on a Fulbright in Seville.
Orientalism Term Timeline in Disgraced
