Art Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz Download Open image “A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror” — Wilhelm Steinitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Chess Combination Horror Showy Winning
This is a scary movie I'm in, but I do it for my folk who genuinely want me to win. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think to make art and horror successful you need a strong contrast. Otherwise, it just becomes titillation and shock value. That's not… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice]… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
