"Chess is the art which expresses the science…" — Mikhail Botvinnik

"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic."

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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34 Quotes by Mikhail Botvinnik

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Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in…
Chess is the art of analysis.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future…
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those…
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or,…
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is…

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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