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Julian Schnabel Biography

Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is 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.

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

Knowing, Painting, Place, Think, Thinking

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy. . . like personages.

Like, People, Space, Think, Thinking

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

Ghost, Leave, Okay, Seeing, Thinking

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!

Check, Come, Here And There, Home, Want

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

Painter, Point, Think, Thinking, Use

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.

Addresses, Art, Everything, Interesting, Point, Start

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

Consciousness, Painting, Paintings, Self, Think, Thinking

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Firsts, Freed, Painting, Plate, Plates, Stylistic

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Attention, Marketing, Paintings, Talk, Too Much

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

Bull, Bullfight, Bulls, Good

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.

Artist, Crazy, Insane, Maybe, Work

I work with things left over from other things.

Left, Materials, Things, Work

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

Made, Making Money, Money, Movie, Painting

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

Generations, Look, Looks, People, Room

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. "

Dream, Morning, Realize, Remember, Show, Thinking

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

Benefit, Fringe, Like, Looks, Style, Thinking

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.

Art, Breathing, Making, Time, Writing

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

Matter, Matters, Think, Thinking

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

Attention, Jewish, Kids, Say, Spent, Surfing

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

Looks, Painting, Paintings, Stuff

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