Anodyne
Sunday, March 13, 2005
 
About Being a Student

Uncommonly good advice from Mr. Julian Schnabel, a filmmaker and "painter" that I usually don't have much time for:

"Never listen to anybody when it comes to being responsible for your own paintings. It's a mistake for young artists to want to please older ones. They're going to make you take out of your paintings the very things that most characterize them as yours. You might think that someone is smarter than you are, or wiser, or more experienced, and they may be. But you can't listen to them because nobody knows better than you what you need to do. Most older artists are going to try to get you to conform to the standards that you are out to destroy anyway."

(This from a massive Schnabel vanity press-cum-retrospective catalog in across the shop desk yesterday evening. Full of interchangable mixed-media paintings, and witty and insightful gossip about the 80s Manhattan artworld, including a particularly restrained and moving account of bumping into an elderly but no less opinionated Clement Greenberg in an LAX departure lounge).
- posted by cjb @ 1:52 PM


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