Art Quote by Margaret Visser

“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it,…

— Andi Ashworth

A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.

— Harley Pasternak

“All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal,…

— Wendell Berry

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining…

— Elise M. Boulding

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal…

— Michael Pollan

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

— Alex Comfort

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal,…

— Anthony Bourdain

Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.

— Margaret Chapman

“What is more important than the meal? Doesn’t the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a…

— Paul Valéry

Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for…

— Ben Domenech

“There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please…

— Yuan Mei