Chantal Joffe Quotes

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

Chantal Joffe

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• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Doctor

• Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Me
  • Wanted
  • Whatever

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Girl
  • Paint
  • Instagram

• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Dance

• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Paint
  • Disenchanted

• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Wanted
  • Fields
  • April

• Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Said

• The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Changed

• I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Wanted

• I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Want
  • Wanted
  • Entertainers

• Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Love
  • Man
  • Alone

• You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.

  

  Euny Hong
  • Race
  • Evidence
  • Vain

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

  

  Chantal Joffe
  • Wanted
  • Changed
  • Paint