Page 161 - Not by Chance

If we cannot believe that the static, two-di-

mensional, inanimate scene in a picture is the re-
sult of pure chance, how can anyone think that
the three-dimensional, living, incomparable per-
fection of the painting's subject matter is the
work of blind chance?

"Mahmudiye Kalyonu," signed by Arif in Ottoman in the year 1360 of the Muslim calendar