Art Quote by Eve Babitz

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very…

— Eve Babitz

“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?”

— Noah Boyd

“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people inquisitive, and…

— Neil Gaiman

“I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where I'm like,…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

— Alfred Binet

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

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

— Kay Kay Menon

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate…

— Richard Reti

“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is…

— Marcel Duchamp

“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”

— Oscar Wilde