110 Quotes by Julian Schnabel

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...

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

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

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.