张大千先生平生有两大嗜好:一是画、一是吃。他把绘画当作第一职业,把烹饪当作第二“职业”。他曾说:“一个搞艺术的,如果连吃都不懂或不会欣赏,他哪里又能学好艺术呢?”由此,他把绘画艺术视为追求意境和笔墨情趣,把烹饪艺术视为味觉艺术和美食情趣。故而将两者有机的结合起来,谈画时离不开说吃,绘画时又离不开烹调,正如他本人所言:“以艺术而论,我善烹饪更在画艺之上。” Mr. Zhang Daqian have two main hobbies: one is painting, one is to eat. He regarded painting as the first occupation and cooking as the second “occupation.” He once said: “If he does not know how to eat or can not appreciate it, where can he learn art?” Thus, he regarded the art of painting as the pursuit of artistic conception and pen and ink, and regarded the art of cooking as Taste art and gourmet taste. Therefore, when the two are organically integrated, they can not be separated from each other while talking about painting. As he himself said, “In terms of art, my good cooking is even more in painting art.”