Ferran Adria Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

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

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.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

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

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

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

I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

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

There's a difference between watching a chef show, which doesn't feel like a reality show compared to the Housewives. Those shows can, I think, not only lower your IQ, but really just knock the wind out of you, because we're all here in this business.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

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