Julian Schnabel Quotes

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• 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...

  Julian Schnabel

  Photography, Past, Events

  "Julian Schnabel: Polaroids". Book by Julian Schnabel, 2010.

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Friendly, Painting, Internet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Knowing, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Art, Minutes

  "The Jubilance Of Julian — The Feng Shui Of Schnabel" by Mia Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2017.

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• I work with things left over from other things.

  Julian Schnabel

  Materials, Left

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Writing, Breathing

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• I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

  Julian Schnabel

  Somewhere Else, Want, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

  Julian Schnabel

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Powerful, Office

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Julian Schnabel

  Looks, Stuff, Painting

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.

  Julian Schnabel

  Fall, Thinking, White

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• Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

  Julian Schnabel

  Saxophone, Painting, Notes

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Interesting, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Artist, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

  Julian Schnabel

  Ideas, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Broken, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Artist, People, Ruthless

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• I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Use, Painter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Julian Schnabel

  Painting, Making Money, Made

  "Julian Schnabel: Taking the flak" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2010.

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• My compulsion is to create things.

  Julian Schnabel

  Compulsion

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• I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Self, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, World, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, May, Painting

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