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