Art Quote by Jeffrey Steingarten

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For…

— Ralph Caplan

Given the amount of food I plan to gorge on this year, I'm not confident in the integrity of this chair's construction.

— Anonymous

I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an exhibit but…

— Sam Maloof

“Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes,…

— Dan Buettner

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are…

— Mario Batali

The good chair is a task one is never completely done with

— Hans Wegner

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

— Craig Claiborne

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer,…

— Carrie Fisher

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

— Paul Gauguin

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

— Marcella Hazan