Julian Schnabel

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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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. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Julian Schnabel

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I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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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. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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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. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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