„I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play night and day and nothing in the whole world interests me more than finding the right move… Nothing transcendental going on here – strikes [in Buenos Aires, where chess competitions were organized that year for not professionals] a lot of strikes, the people are on the move. Painting interests me less and less.“

— Marcel Duchamp

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„Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.“
— Claude Monet
„Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.“
— Patricia Briggs