It Is The Spectators Who Make The

I Feel Shame, Not For The Wrong Things I Have Done, But For The Right Things That I Have Failed To Do.

I Have Forced Myself To Contradict Myself In Order To Avoid Conforming To My Own Taste.

I Have Drawn People's Attention To The Fact That Art Is A Mirage. A Mirage, Just Like The Oasis That Appears In The Desert. It Is Very Beautiful, Until The Moment When You Die Of Thirst, Obviously. But We Do Not Die Of Thirst In The Field Of Art. The Mirage Has Substance.

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.

I Believe That A Picture, A Work Of Art, Lives And Dies Just As We Do.