110 Quotes by Julian Schnabel

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

"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!"

"There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context."

"The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics."

"I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them."

"It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting."

"I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people."

"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."

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

"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."