Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabelis an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 October 1951
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people facts
I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
thinking ghost okay
I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.
thinking self painting
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
home want here-and-there
There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!
art perspective historical
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.
new-york thinking artist
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.
new-york wall nice
I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.
nice names interesting
It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.
people painting impatient
I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people.
faces looks felt
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.
thinking use painter
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
thinking space people
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.
thinking artist issues
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
interesting weight different
I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.