Tag Archives: Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past. Julian Schnabel

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

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. Julian Schnabel

My compulsion is to create things. Julian Schnabel

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. Julian Schnabel

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion. Julian Schnabel

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. Julian Schnabel

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. Julian Schnabel

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. Julian Schnabel

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