Chantal Joffe famous 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

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

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

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

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

#Fascination #Fascinating #Sheer

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

#Boat #Feels

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

#People #Paint #Never Change

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

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.