It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.

I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.

Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings

Very few things in life matter.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.