Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

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.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Paint the essential character of things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.