Julian Schnabel Quotes
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I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
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I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
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I work with things left over from other things.
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Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.
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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.
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I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
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If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
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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.
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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.
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It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?
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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!
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I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
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When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.
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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.
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Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."
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What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.
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I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
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I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
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Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.
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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.
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I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
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