"I didn’t want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion." ― Julian Schnabel Topic(s): Religion More From Julian Schnabel "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." "I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I’d say my religion was more surfing than Judaism – that’s what I spent most of my time doing." "I guess I am ruthless too because that’s what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don’t go around stepping on their heads." More In Religion "I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again."― Christopher Hitchens "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."― David Herbert Lawrence "I could never take the idea of religion very seriously."― Joyce Carol Oates