Art Quote by Garry Kasparov

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

— Marcel Duchamp

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.

— William Hartston

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you…

— Larry Fitzgerald

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

— Reuben Fine

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is a game of stimulation.

— Gza