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When a piece gets difficult, make faces. — Artur Schnabel

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel

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

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point. — 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've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. — 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

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes. — 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 think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be. — 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 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 think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it. — Julian Schnabel

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. — Artur 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 have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess. — Julian Schnabel

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing. — Artur Schnabel

I was always very ... impatient about showing my paintings to people. — Julian Schnabel

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. — Artur 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

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless. — Artur Schnabel

It is not music's function to express rational necessities. — Artur Schnabel

Great music is better than it can be performed. — Artur 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

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range, — Artur Schnabel

I practice in my head. — Artur Schnabel

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious. — Julian Schnabel

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around. — 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

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. — Julian Schnabel

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur 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

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian. — Julian Schnabel

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. — Artur Schnabel

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!! — Artur 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

I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing. — Artur Schnabel

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do. — Julian Schnabel

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel

I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer. — Artur 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

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 always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting. — Julian Schnabel

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand. — Artur Schnabel