110 Quotes by Julian Schnabel

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you’ve had an experience. It’s the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

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

Paintings are not like the Internet. They’re not like movies. They’re not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That’s the great thing about them.

I’m not mannerist. I don’t think I’m interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it’s about involution or turning in on that.

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

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.

Everything I’ve seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I’ve seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

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

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.