Julia Child Quotes

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

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

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

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

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

What I'm good at is making art.