Elinor Wylie Quotes

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.

For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

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

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I don't have any specialties. Anything I cook, I just make it special.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

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

We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.

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.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.