Quote

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Muriel Barbery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Persons
Gesture
Person
Gestures
Writing
Artistic
Work
Pleasure
Art
Another
True
Tasting
Ends
Feast

More quotes by Muriel Barbery

Image
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
Muriel Barbery
Image
They didn't recognize me, I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. It is because they have never seen you, he says. I would recognize you anywhere.
Muriel Barbery
Image
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel Barbery
Image
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
Muriel Barbery
Image
Art is emotion without desire.
Muriel Barbery
Image
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Muriel Barbery
Image
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
Muriel Barbery
Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
Muriel Barbery
Image
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
Muriel Barbery
Image
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
Muriel Barbery