I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great. Chantal Joffe More Quotes by Chantal Joffe More Quotes From Chantal Joffe 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 clothes body men 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 painting ideas thinking 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 magazines narrative thinking 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 clothes fashion photography I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating. Chantal Joffe sheer fascinating fascination I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed. Chantal Joffe never-change paint people 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 paint photographer way 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 littles thinking
