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.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.