Quotes About Creativity

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

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

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.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

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.

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

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.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

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

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

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

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