I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible..

If you think well, you cook well..

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. F….

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with sin….

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic..

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the ….

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness..

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan..

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it..

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food..

When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People thi….

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook..

I don't worry about the things I can't change..

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours..

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, as….

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have..

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure..

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best..

We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes..

Creativity means not copying..

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster..