I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.
Julian SchnabelI'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 SchnabelI 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.
Julian SchnabelI think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
Julian SchnabelWhen 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 SchnabelThere 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