Anything is art if an artist says it is.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

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.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.