Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-1991)
Turkish painter and princess of Iraq, best known for her big abstract canvas combining bizantine, islamic and western influences. She would clip these gigantic canvases around her studio and house and guests would have to walk through them.
"You must forget what you know because what you know is what you have learned, but what you do not know is what you really are"
"When I am painting, I am always aware of a kind of communion with all living things, I mean with the universe as the sum total of the infinitely varied manifestations of being. I then cease to be myself in order to become part of an impersonal creative process that throws out these paintings much as an erupting volcano throws out rocks and lava."
"You must forget what you know because what you know is what you have learned, but what you do not know is what you really are"
Fahrelnissa Zeid
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