I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute. Julian Schnabel More Quotes by Julian Schnabel More Quotes From Julian Schnabel I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious. Julian Schnabel painting self thinking 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. Julian Schnabel differences people needs 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 light dark people 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. Julian Schnabel space people thinking It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting. Julian Schnabel nice names interesting I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it. Julian Schnabel style looks 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. Julian Schnabel film real memories My compulsion is to create things. Julian Schnabel compulsion I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. Julian Schnabel nice people thinking I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess. Julian Schnabel painting ideas I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around. Julian Schnabel okay ghost thinking I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty. Julian Schnabel knows faces looks 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. Julian Schnabel insane crazy artist I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point. Julian Schnabel painter use thinking 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. Julian Schnabel different use thinking I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. Julian Schnabel issues artist thinking 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. Julian Schnabel perspective historical art I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all. Julian Schnabel facts people 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. Julian Schnabel different weight interesting When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever. Julian Schnabel take-me next watches
