For us chess players the language of artist is something…

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a…

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Siri Hustvedt

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big…

— Vladimir Kramnik

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group.…

— Bobby Fischer

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound…

— Humpy Koneru

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork…

— PJ Harvey

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

— Daniel Naroditsky

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a…

— Shankarananda