Famous Quotes

"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."

Vladimir Kramnik on Beauty

More quotes about Beauty

• "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

  Confucius on Beauty

• "To love beauty is to see light."

  Victor Hugo on Beauty

• "Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

  Amanda Peet on Beauty

• "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

  Anne Roiphe on Beauty

• "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Beauty

More quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

• "The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."

• "For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."

• "I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."

• "The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."

• "Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game."