Food as Art Quotes

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

My approach goes way beyond simply ingredients and techniques. Every dish has to have a story.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

My food is an extension of my personality.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?

Cooking is creating emotion.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

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

For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

Food is a party; it's exciting. It should be a source of entertainment and nourishment. And just do everything you can to not let food become anything but fun. Let it be a source of pleasure, not anxiety or neuroses or stress.