A. A. Milne Quotes

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.