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
crazy artist insane
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
pictures took
I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
money
Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.
fine pictures surface works
This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.
art religion
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
lots people treating understand
It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.
answering define defying describing equally experience inept paint paintings satisfying themselves
I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
mapping mark terrain
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.
fat lady sings
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
next watches take-me
When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.