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
Julian Schnabel quotes about
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.
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.
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.
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.
photography past looks
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
friendly painting internet
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.
materials left
I work with things left over from other things.
somewhere-else want painting
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
compulsion
My compulsion is to create things.
differences people needs
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
painting making-money made
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
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.
marketing too-much attention
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
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.