Julian Schnabel quote: "It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear brig...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own ar...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures hav...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I&#...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

is a victory for our neighborhood.
JULIAN SCHNABEL

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
JULIAN SCHNABEL

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright l...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experi...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is wher...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the no...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.
ARTUR SCHNABEL

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I dont think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the not...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I donÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianis...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where ...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where ...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between th...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only-...
ARTHUR SCHNABEL

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where...
ARTHUR SCHNABEL

Instead of stabilizing places like Iraq, international efforts to centralize power are creating a mo...
ALBRECHT SCHNABEL

There is a great fear that unstable states and post-war societies provide an ideal breeding ground f...
ALBRECHT SCHNABEL

Kids are our business. If we don't do what is right for our children, we are in trouble.
BECKY SCHNABEL

We are hoping to have at least one candidate from each district for the first class. So, if we could...
BECKY SCHNABEL

When a piece gets difficult, make faces
ARTHUR SCHNABEL

I dont think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the n...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

This shortage is not just local, it is statewide and nationally as well.
BECKY SCHNABEL

I don’t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the ...
ARTUR SCHNABEL

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery ...
JULIAN BARNES

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and po...
JULIAN ASSANGE

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, th...
JULIAN BOND

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
JULIAN ASSANGE

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about ...
JULIAN LENNON

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
JULIAN ASSANGE

To rally every black sheep is my goal.
JULIAN COPE

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo...
JULIAN SANDS

The only way to stay competitive is offer something the market doesn't have.
AL JULIAN

The employees are the ones who really make it work here.
AL JULIAN

We're now competing with eastern Europe, China, Korea, competing with Turkey and competing with plac...
AL JULIAN

The machines here have unique advantages over others in the market and you also see our prices are v...
AL JULIAN

It's killing us. They've told us to run business as usual, but it's not that simple.
AL JULIAN

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhel...
JULIAN ASSANGE

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: ben...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually...
JULIAN CASTRO

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.
JULIAN COPE

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we ...
JULIAN BAGGINI

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...
JULIAN BARNES

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
JULIAN BARNES

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
JULIAN BARNES

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
JULIAN BARNES

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
JULIAN CLARY

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
JULIAN BARNES

Quality is a proud and soaring thing.
JESSICA JULIAN

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex
JULIAN BARNES

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
JULIAN JAYNES

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
JULIAN FELLOWES

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities b...
JULIAN CASTRO

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic s...
JULIAN BARNES

Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people ...
JULIAN LENNON

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and...
JULIAN ASSANGE

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolut...
JULIAN BOND

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold W...
JULIAN CASTRO

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even ...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we a...
JULIAN BARNES

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been ...
JULIAN ASSANGE

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don...
JULIAN CASTRO

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire t...
JULIAN CLARY

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav...
JULIAN ASSANGE

WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corp...
JULIAN ASSANGE

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to ...
JULIAN BAGGINI

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
JULIAN ASSANGE

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
JULIAN ASSANGE

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran f...
JULIAN CASTRO

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
JULIAN BAGGINI

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the bes...
JULIAN ASSANGE

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pai...
JULIAN BAGGINI

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...
JULIAN ASSANGE

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel...
JULIAN FELLOWES

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet dif...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees ...
JULIAN BARNES

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we tal...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings br...
PERCY JULIAN

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chance...
JULIAN BAGGINI

We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand ...
JULIAN CASTRO

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns...
PERCY JULIAN

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to...
JULIAN BAGGINI

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do tha...
JULIAN ASSANGE

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obedi...
JULIAN BARNES

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that ...
JULIAN LENNON

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just...
JULIAN ASSANGE

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
JULIAN BOND

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is p...
JULIAN BAGGINI

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty an...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing an...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'...
JULIAN CASTRO

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deepl...
JULIAN BAGGINI

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the b...
JULIAN ASSANGE

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, ...
JULIAN CASTRO

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a...
JULIAN ROBERTSON

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.
JULIAN CASTRO

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice wha...
JULIAN BARNES

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people fr...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time....
JULIAN BOND

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like t...
JULIAN LENNON

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
JULIAN BARNES

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors...
JULIAN FELLOWES

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
JULIAN FELLOWES

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical ab...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the opti...
JULIAN BAGGINI

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I thi...
JULIAN BAGGINI

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
JULIAN BARNES

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular new...
JULIAN ASSANGE

The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and s...
JULIAN CASTRO

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...
JULIAN BARNES

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not s...
JULIAN BARBOUR

The prosperity of the United States and the prosperity of the Hispanic community, as the fastest-gro...
JULIAN CASTRO

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and wh...
JULIAN BAGGINI

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant o...
JULIAN BAGGINI

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth....
JULIAN SANDS

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action t...
JULIAN CASTRO

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is fa...
JULIAN SIMON

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depe...
JULIAN SIMON

The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning o...
JULIAN SIMON

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...
JULIAN SIMON

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understa...
JULIAN SIMON

It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long ru...
JULIAN SIMON

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavi...
JULIAN SIMON

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience giv...
JULIAN SIMON

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ...
JULIAN SIMON

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
JULIAN SIMON

Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resour...
JULIAN SIMON

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in r...
JULIAN HUXLEY

I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that
commitment, ... That is a commitment no...
JULIAN ALLEN

So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind
waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN

I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not jus...
JULIAN ALLEN

So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN

Right now we are inundated with stuff,
JULIAN ALLEN

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand fra...
JULIAN ASSANGE

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
JULIAN ASSANGE

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit ...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
JULIAN ASSANGE

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as ...
JULIAN CASTRO

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to in...
JULIAN CASTRO

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquai...
JULIAN SIMON

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of u...
JULIAN SIMON

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induce...
JULIAN SIMON

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
JULIAN FELLOWES

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
JULIAN FELLOWES

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
JULIAN FELLOWES

Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool.
JULIAN FELLOWES

I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich ...
JULIAN FELLOWES

War makes early risers of us all.
JULIAN FELLOWES

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
JULIAN FELLOWES

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh,...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I...
JULIAN CASTRO

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...
JULIAN BARNES

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitaria...
JULIAN LENNON

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subt...
JULIAN BARNES

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not u...
JULIAN BAGGINI

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline ...
JULIAN ASSANGE

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being j...
JULIAN BAGGINI

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were ...
JULIAN ASSANGE

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contempora...
JULIAN FELLOWES

The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO

Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES

She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH

I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI

I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Julian Schnabel

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