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

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Julian Schnabel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 26
Artist
Director
Drawer
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
Screenwriter
Visual Artist
New York City
New York
G'iuliʼan Shenabel
Julian C. Schnabel
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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.
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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.
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I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.
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I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.
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Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.
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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.
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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.
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The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that
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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.
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I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
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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.
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Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?
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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.
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You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.
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Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...
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If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
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My compulsion is to create things.
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I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
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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.
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I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
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