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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• Changed
• Paint

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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 grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• 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

• I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Home
  • Wanted

• Every single record I have is a fossil.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Records
  • Fossils

• After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Feels
  • Smart
  • Should

• Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Exciting
  • Coming
  • Terribly

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

  

  Chantal Joffe
  • Wanted
  • Changed
  • Paint