The canvas, an imbroglio of bold colors, is finished. The artist, a 31-year-old colossus, poses in front of his work. “I’d like to put everything I know, my whole world, into my painting. His name is Julian Schnabel, the son of an ordinary Texan who has been living in exile in New York for ten years. Because Julian wants to become a great painter.

Brigitte Cornand, Beaux-Arts magazine, novembre 1983
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