Art Quote by Garry Kasparov

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on…

— Alexander Alekhine

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

— Marcel Duchamp

Be the chess player not the chess pieces.

— Akila Sultana

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it…

— Bent Larsen

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

— Kurt Richter

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

— Walter Scott

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

— Garry Kasparov