Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
Interpretation
Chess and the violin are equally respected art forms requiring skill and dedication.
In this quote, Mikhail Botvinnik expresses the idea that chess, much like playing the violin, is a profound art that deserves similar recognition and respect. Just as there are many talented violinists who achieve success and mastery, there are also skilled chess players who contribute to the beauty and complexity of the game, emphasizing that both pursuits require considerable talent and dedication.
In practice
In a speech about honing one's skills in both art and intellect.
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what_x000D_ Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
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