- “Boisterous, bombastic, and filled with braggadocio.”
- “I see paintings everywhere.”
- “I want my life to be in my work, crushed into my painting like a pressed car. If it’s not, my work is just some stuff.”
Julian Schnabel
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in clamshell box, 33 x 44 cm (13 x 17.3 in.), 7.83 kg (17.23 lb), 570 pages, numbered and signed by Julian Schnabel2000Edition: English, French, GermanThis edition is sold out. However, occasionally, copies do become available again. Please register on our waiting list so we can inform you if this edition, or anything similar comes up.
Collector’s Edition (No. 136–1,135), numbered and signed by Julian Schnabel. Also published in two different Art Editions.

Julian Schnabel
2000Life on the Big Canvas
The art of Julian Schnabel
The editors
Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include the Collector’s Editions Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Ai Weiwei, Georg Baselitz and the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book, as well as monographs like the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Louise Kugelberg is an interior designer born in Sweden, who has refurbished 18th-century buildings housing private art collections, worked collaboratively to design luxury boutique hotels, and constructed a massive portable pavilion tent out of recycled ocean plastic for Parley for the Oceans. Over the past five years, she has worked extensively with Julian Schnabel, designing exhibition spaces and catalogs as well as co-writing and editing the film At Eternity’s Gate. She lives and works in New York.
Julian Schnabel
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in clamshell box, 33 x 44 cm (13 x 17.3 in.), 7.83 kg (17.23 lb), 570 pages, numbered and signed by Julian SchnabelISBN 978-3-8365-8161-5
Edition: English, French, German5