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.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

Humor is the only reason to live.