Arne Jacobsen Quotes

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

The visual aspect of a dish is so important; the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.

I really thing that people more and more want beautiful things about them.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

I abhor mere prettiness.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you should want to eat it. You shouldn't be saying, 'Oh my goodness, isn't the chef clever, he can weave the Eiffel Tower out of carrot sticks.'

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

From the time I start prep to serving the food at the table, I like for the whole thing to be beautiful.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it

The food could taste amazing; however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress that upon the staff of the show, the animation staff - to try to get them to understand that we would only be able to get away with what we were writing if the visuals were appealing enough that it was like a balance, and even people who didn't like what they were hearing would still not want to turn away because what they were seeing was so nice. So that was kind of my hunch, and I think it worked.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.