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 SchnabelIf I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
Julian Schnabel