Julian Schnabel

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

— Julian Schnabel

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface…

— Julian Schnabel

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to…

— 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…

— Julian Schnabel

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

— 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…

— Julian Schnabel

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point,…

— Julian Schnabel

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell…

— Julian Schnabel

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

— Julian Schnabel

A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I…

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Julian Schnabel

I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show…

— Julian Schnabel

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or…

— Julian Schnabel

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…

— Julian Schnabel

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they…

— 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…

— Julian Schnabel

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that…

— Julian Schnabel

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things…

— Julian Schnabel

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly…

— Julian Schnabel

When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later,…

— Julian Schnabel

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much…

— Julian Schnabel

I work with things left over from other things.

— Julian Schnabel

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you…

— Julian Schnabel

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

— Julian Schnabel

Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of…

— Julian Schnabel