of Art (outside view) (inside view)
Quotes
“Unless a picture shocks,it is nothing.”
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. ”
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
“Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.”
“The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.”
Notes
^