Chantal Joffe Quotes

• I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

  Chantal Joffe

  Thinking, Ideas, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

  Chantal Joffe

  Men, Clothes, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

  Chantal Joffe

  Thinking, Magazines, Narrative

  Interview with Stella McCartney, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

  Chantal Joffe

  Photography, Fashion, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

  Chantal Joffe

  People, Paint, Never Change

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

  Chantal Joffe

  Fascination, Fascinating, Sheer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

  Chantal Joffe

  Way, Photographer, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

  Chantal Joffe

  Boat, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

  Chantal Joffe

  Daughter, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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