Julia Child Quotes

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

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

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I've realised that when fashion is really good and really challenges and takes a risk, it is incredibly artistically powerful. It makes people dream.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

My favorite way to cook is to look in my cabinets and see what I have. That's the most fun. 'I don't have tomatoes, but I have this chili-garlic sauce from the Asian grocery store. Let's throw that in there and see how it affects my beef barley soup!'

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

I have got a good imagination.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

I keep interested and I keep my eyes wide open...I try to read as much as possible...try to go to places that are off the beaten path...and I love to listen in on other peoples conversations...all the things that are floating around out there and I regurgitate it with my perspective...lyrically and musically.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.