Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
Christian MorgensternIt is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
Christian MorgensternIn every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.
Christian Morgenstern