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Julian Schnabel, born on October 26, 1951, is a renowned American artist. Known for his unique painting and sculpture, his works blend various art media. Schnabel's artistic career began in the 1970s, and his works have had a profound impact on the art world.

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“I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.”

People Thinking Indian Palestinian Unfair

Author:Julian Schnabel

“When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Made Film Realizing Style Criticism If I Could Another Way Basquiat

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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?”

People Way Feels Enough Poetic Altered Subversive Subliminal

Author:Julian Schnabel

“Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.”

People Thinking Has Beens Next Goal Saws Next Day

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Thinking Knows World Stories Would Be Girl Perfect Goes On Informative Indictment

Author: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.”

People Needs Differences Common Scared

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Knows Feels Looks Persons Bigs Rooms Hell Generations Painting Plates

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Thinking Young Artist Interesting Interesting Things Young Artists

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.”

People Thinking Sometimes Facts Problem

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Thinking Matter Might Certain Space Subjects Painting Involved Subject Matter

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Way Painting Get Away Viewers Get Real

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Ifs World Way Want Has Beens Might Certain Might Have Been Sanctions

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.”

People Thinking Writing Mean Good Things Compliment Charlatans

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.”

People Painting Impatient

Author: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.”

People World Light Turns Dark Levels Bears Balance Comfort Extremes Bright Lights

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Source: CVJ: nicknames of maitre D's & other excerpts from life

“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.”

People Thinking Littles Hard Whole Moments Happens Fall Bits White Painting Little Bit Red Things Change Falling Down

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.”

People Artist Great Art Ruthless Great Artist Respect People

Author:Julian Schnabel

“My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.”

People Kind May Has Beens My Own Painting Intensity

Author:Julian Schnabel

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

People Thinking Knows Fiction Nice Truth Is Stranger Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Julian Schnabel

“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.”

People Should Persons Care Voice Heard Palestinian Who Cares

Author:Julian Schnabel

About the Author

Born: October 26, 1951
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 63

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