You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
Chess will always be the master of us all.
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.
Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.