"Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection."

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Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

Ludwig Bemelmans

#Artist Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Gourmet Quotes

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
“It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!”
“Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.”
“...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics....”
“When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.”
“When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.”
“London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.”
“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”

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