I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which need no definition.

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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.

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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.

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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

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