Irish Quote by Sean Scully Download Open image “I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.” — Sean Scully ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irish Living Love Mythic Romantic Sense
I still identify as Irish. But I'm a Londoner too. It really is a great place to grow up. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country. I 'get'… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner. — Jimmy Somerville Copy Share Image
I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish heritage and… — Declan Rice Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city. — Brian Gleeson Copy Share Image
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can. — Rory Gallagher 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
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“A horn honks.I look up, expecting to see the white Audi. But there’s a sleek black four-door with shiny silver rims instead. e driver… — K A Tucker Copy Share Image
“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image