Julia Child Art Quotations

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.