Julian Schnabel Quotes

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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

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Julian Schnabel

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel

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Born: October 26, 1951 (age 73)

Bio: Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings" large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates.

Known for:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Miral (2010)
Basquiat (1996)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (2007)

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