Chantal Joffe Quotes
I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
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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.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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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.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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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.
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My dreams never died, they just changed. I still have dreams every day.
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When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
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...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
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And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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Everyone can make their own decisions about what's going on. It's not for players to answer. It's just a tough situation right now.
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
