Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

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

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

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

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

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

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

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

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.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most. I did local theater and plays in school. I think there was a sense of entertaining - being on the stage, making people laugh, making people cry - that I was drawn to. It was also one of those things like, "I can do this for a very long time."