Julian Schnabel Quotes
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I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
— Julian Schnabel
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
— Julian Schnabel
Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.
— Julian Schnabel
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
— Julian Schnabel
I work with things left over from other things.
— Julian Schnabel
My compulsion is to create things.
— Julian Schnabel
You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.
— Julian Schnabel
You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.
— Julian Schnabel
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
— Julian Schnabel
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
— Julian Schnabel
I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
— Julian Schnabel
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
— Julian Schnabel
Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.
— Julian Schnabel
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
— Julian Schnabel
I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
— Julian Schnabel
I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.
— Julian Schnabel
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
— Julian Schnabel
I was always very ... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
— Julian Schnabel
I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.
— Julian Schnabel
Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
— Julian Schnabel
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
— Julian Schnabel
It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.
— Julian Schnabel
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.
— Julian Schnabel
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
— Julian Schnabel
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
— Julian Schnabel
It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.
— Julian Schnabel
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
— Julian Schnabel
I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.
— Julian Schnabel
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
— Julian Schnabel
I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
— Julian Schnabel
