Behinds Quote by Sean Scully

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

— Sean Scully

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

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

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

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

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

My work is very serious, and I use a lot of black, too.

— Sean Scully

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

After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said…

— Sean Scully

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

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