Jacques Mieses famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth in it. Lasker's style is clear water, but with a drop of poison which is clouding it. Capablanca's style is perhaps still clearer, but it lacks that drop of poison.
-- Jacques Mieses -
Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
-- Jacques Mieses
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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