The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. - Aaron Nimzowitsch
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your fantasy tied down by another person!" - Alexander Alekhine
I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. - Alexander Kotov
Without error there can be no brilliancy. - Emanuel Lasker
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. - Emanuel Lasker
The hallmark of the artist is simplicity. - Larry Evans
Beauty