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 come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
