«The plates seemed to have a sound,» he recalled, «the sound of
every violent human tragedy, an anthropomorphic sense of things being smeared and thrown.
In his 1987 autobiography, Schnabel reflected on his thought process for his first plate paintings: «The plates seemed to have a sound, the sound of
every violent human tragedy, an anthropomorphic sense of things being smeared and thrown... I wanted to make something that was exploding as much as I wanted to make something that was cohesive.»
«The plates seemed to have a sound, the sound of
every violent human tragedy, an anthropomorphic sense of things being smeared and thrown.