"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."

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Chantal Joffe

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.”
“Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.”
“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
“And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about?”
“I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.”
“I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.”
“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
“Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.”

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