Marco Pierre White Quotes

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

Cooking is creating emotion.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my torn nature.

Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.

Recipes are overrated.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.