Garry Kasparov Quotes

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Error itself may be happy chance.