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
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.
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.
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.
painting making-money made
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
marketing too-much attention
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
faces looks felt
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.
saxophone painting notes
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.