Quotes About Fernand

#1. Fernand," cried he, "of my hundred names I need only tell you one, to overwhelm you! But you guess it now do you not? - or, rather, you remember it? For notwithstanding all my sorrows and my tortures, I show you today a face which the happiness of revenge makes young again..

Alexandre Dumas

#2. I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

Thomas Keller

#3. Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

Charlie Trotter

#4. Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Fernand Braudel

#5. This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Fernand Leger

#6. Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Fernand Leger

#7. Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Fernand Leger

#8. The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

Fernand Braudel

#9. The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Fernand Leger

#10. A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

Fernand Point

#11. There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

Fernand Braudel

#12. If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Fernand Point

#13. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

Fernand Point

#14. Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

Fernand Leger

#15. Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

Fernand Point

#16. If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Fernand Point

#17. Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Fernand Braudel

#18. As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

Fernand Point

#19. The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

Fernand Leger

#20. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Fernand Point

#21. A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

#22. A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Fernand Point

#23. Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

Fernand Point

#24. Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

Fernand Point

#25. In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Fernand Point

#26. All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Fernand Braudel

#27. When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.

Fernand Dumont

#28. In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Fernand Point

#29. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

#30. Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

Fernand Leger

#31. The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

Fernand Braudel

#32. The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Fernand Braudel

#33. A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

Fernand Point

#34. There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Fernand Braudel

#35. Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

Fernand Braudel

#36. Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

Fernand Point

#37. Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Fernand Point

#38. What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger

#39. Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Fernand Leger

#40. Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Fernand Point

#41. The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

Fernand Leger

#42. Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

#43. Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

Fernand Braudel

#44. For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Fernand Braudel

#45. Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Fernand Leger

#46. A woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

Fernand Dumont

#47. The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

Fernand Point

#48. Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

Fernand Pouillon

#49. I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Fernand Leger