Quotes About Inspiration

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.