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In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

Language is a social art.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.