20 Creative Cooking Quotes From Famous Creative Minds
Want to spark joy, health, and creative living with food? Here are 20 creative cooking quotes from creative minds to inspire creativity in the kitchen.
Do you like to cook? In this fast-paced world where you can have anything delivered or picked up, it can seem more productive and helpful to skip cooking, but you’d be missing out on a long list of creative and health benefits. There are many joys of cooking for all types of people.
For creatives, cooking can help you improve creative skills, relieve stress, support creative thinking, and much more. Let these quotes from famous chefs to creative minds inspire you to approach cooking in new and creative ways to support a happy, healthy, and creative lifestyle.
For more inspiration, check out these creative cookbooks, foods that boost creativity, and more creative cooking tips.
“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”
― Wolfgang Puck
Chef
“Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.”
― Guy Fieri
Chef
“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.”
― Paul Theroux
Novelist
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child
Chef
“Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
― Craig Claiborne
Restaurant Critic
“Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.”
― Truman Capote
Novelist
“Cooking is revolution and creation.”
― Simone De Beauvoir
Philosopher
“Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.”
― Mary Berry
Food Journalist
“If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.”
― Will.i.am
Rapper
“I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”
― Maya Angelou
Memoirist, Poet
“Cooking is the art of adjustment.”
― Jacques Pepin
Chef
“One of the most meditative times of my day is when I’m cooking.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein
Author
“Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life.”
― Laura Esquivel
Novelist
“I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.”
― Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Writer
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if not has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf
Writer
“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.”
― Guy Fieri
Chef
“How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.”
― Shunya
Author
“You have to be yourself when you are creating and cooking. You do what you need to do and you do it to the best of your ability.”
― Leah Chase
Chef
“Cooking is like giving birth because you are mixing things together to create something new and wonderful.”
― Carole Lieberman
Psychiatrist
“Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You’re sharing your life with people. Of course, it’s also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.”
― Ted Allen
Author
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
