Julian Schnabel
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.Collection: Differences
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Art
Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Focus
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Interesting
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.Collection: New York
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 thatCollection: Stories
Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."Collection: Dream
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Thinking
I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Crazy
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!Collection: Home
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.Collection: New York
There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.Collection: People
You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.Collection: Bulls