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Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking. -- Bobby Flay
In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em! -- Edgar Wallace
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. -- George Mercer Dawson
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. -- Bill Vaughan
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. -- Alton Brown
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. -- Harry Houdini
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire. -- Bobby Flay
I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats. -- Nick Offerman
I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes. -- Bobby Flay
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. -- Harry Houdini
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. -- Henri Matisse
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death. -- Soseki Natsume
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. -- Neil Gaiman
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper. -- John Berger
I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio. -- Ben Schnetzer
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution... -- David Hockney
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The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below. -- Andrew Forge
The more natural the charcoal, the better your food will taste. Rather than briquettes, use lump charcoal, which is is all-natural. Lump charcoal will cause your grill to get much hotter than briquettes. Also, briquettes have chemical filler which holds saw dust together and can change the taste of the food. -- Johnny Trigg
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927) -- Kazimir Malevich
I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires. -- Jose Andres Puerta
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks. -- Chris Riddell
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. -- Gunter Grass
Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill. -- John Lindsay
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. -- George Lucas
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. -- Robert Fortune
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. -- William Scott
I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios. -- Peter Falk
Unlike charcoal grills, which take up to 30 minutes or more to heat up, wood pellet grills can give off an even heat quite quickly. And, unlike propane grills which heat up quickly but lack flavor, foods cooked on pellet grills are rich in smokiness and succulence. -- Homaro Cantu
Whether you are new to the scene or a long-time grillmaster, everyone has unique preferences when it comes to their cooking method of choice. From propane to charcoal to wood, people take their method of grilling quite seriously, and some argue quite passionately about the pros and cons of each method. -- Homaro Cantu
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue. -- Stone Gossard
Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. -- Jodi Picoult
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper. -- Gunter Grass
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. -- Kabir
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. -- Marianne Boruch
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. -- Loung Ung
When I writeI am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes. -- Sanober Khan
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. -- Charles Dickens
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist. -- Raul Soldi
It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust. -- Robert Longo
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard. -- Charles Dickens
What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this? -- Tammara Webber
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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