Alain Ducasse Quotes

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Fashion is more about feel than science.

Taste is an emotion.

Food is an international language, an expression of love.

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

I like food. I like eating.

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

Nothing recalls the past like music.