Artist Quote by Jeannette Walls

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time,…

— Jeannette Walls

“I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.”

— Isabel Vincent

“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,…

— Michael Ignatieff

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined it, and…

— Christopher Bollen

“While I watched her cook, I suddenly realized it was her art. The pan was her canvas, the ingredients her paint. She cooked with…

— L.J. Shen

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

“Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn’t cook a…

— Allie Burke

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“That's what the best par of life is, those days or minutes you can't ever frame or paint beforehand”

— Emily Franklin