#ki

in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. ↗

— Bob Blumer

#culinary #wine #art

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciousness #movement #thought-provoking #art

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

#creativity #mankind #art

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#madeleine-l-engle #walking-on-water #art

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#art

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#competence #creation #creativity #passion #skill-technique

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#luck #skill #art

There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining. ↗

— Yuan Mei

#dining #eating #art

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#forgiveness #god #heaven #hope #speaking