Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. — Sean Scully Copy Share
My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier… — Sean Scully Copy Share
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't… — Sean Scully Copy Share
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking… — Sean Scully Copy Share
I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But… — Sean Scully Copy Share
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven… — Sean Scully Copy Share
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said… — Sean Scully Copy Share
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good… — Sean Scully Copy Share
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own… — Sean Scully Copy Share
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. — Sean Scully Copy Share
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen. — Sean Scully Copy Share
