110 Quotes by Julian Schnabel

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

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

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

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

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

I work with things left over from other things.

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

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.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.