Quotes About Inspiration

Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

Hope and carbohydrates were a powerful combination.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

I wake up in the morning thinking about food.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.