Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! – Alexander Alekhine
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. – Alexander Alekhine
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. – Alexander Alekhine
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar