# Quote — Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

> Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

- Author: [Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md)
- Book: [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md)
- Page: 18
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk#My_Name_Is_Red_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/where-there-is-true

## More from this book

> Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/let-me-first.md)

> A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/a-letter-doesnt.md)

> I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/i-am-nothing.md)