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 style benefits
I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
firsts painting plates
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.
art jobs luxury
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
marketing too-much attention
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
voice people who-cares
I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.
artist people ruthless
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.
dark light people
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
kids surfing attention
I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.
bulls
You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.
compulsion
My compulsion is to create things.
thinking artist interesting
I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.
people may painting
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.
painting making-money made
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
nice thinking people
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.