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.

Early life and education
Born in Brooklyn New York City to Esta (Greenberg) and Jack Schnabel Julian moved with his family to Brownsville Texas when still young. Art
It was with his first solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery in 1979 however that Schnabel would truly come to be regarded[by whom?] as a major new force in the art world. Museum collections
His works are in the collections of various museums throughout the world among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Reina Sofia in Madrid; Tate Modern in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Julian Schnabel (born October 26 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker. Schnabel directed Before Night Falls which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly which was nominated for four Academy Awards. In the 1980s Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates.