I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan
Abstract Expressionism – the first American movement to have a worldwide influence – was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and youll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). – Jerry Saltz
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. – Stanislav Grof
