Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
I never get tired of the blue sky.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.
For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.
I like good company, but I like hard work still better.