Quotes by Sean Scully - Page 1

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.
Sean Scully / Painter
Logic
Job
Undo
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Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!
Sean Scully / Painter
Nightmare
Orwell
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I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
Sean Scully / Painter
Mythic
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Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.
Sean Scully / Painter
Sad
Painting
Extremely
Finish
Profoundly
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I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
Sean Scully / Painter
Catholic
I Am Spiritual Person
Spiritual Person
Zen
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As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.
Sean Scully / Painter
Jesus
Pet
Mary
Important People
Rabbit
The Most Important
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I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.
Sean Scully / Painter
Work People Person
Communicator
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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 / Painter
Art
Jobs
Believe
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Sean Scully / Painter
Artistic
Childhood
Painting
Followed
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My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.
Sean Scully / Painter
Refined
Based
Cultures
Mix
Raw
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When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.
Sean Scully / Painter
Art School
Geometry
Inherent
Sensual
Young Kid
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My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.
Sean Scully / Painter
Abstraction
Bar
Lowering
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
Sean Scully / Painter
Art
Art School
Driven
Paradise
School
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I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.
Sean Scully / Painter
Good Way
Realised
Good Me Way
Girlfriends
Painted
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I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.
Sean Scully / Painter
Logical
Odds
Unifying
Time History Business
Very Long Time
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After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
Sean Scully / Painter
Died
Impervious
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalysis
Son
Correct
Freud
Proved
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I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.
Sean Scully / Painter
Block
Bus
Bus Driver
Over It
Driver
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I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.
Sean Scully / Painter
Curator
One Word
Interview
Sum
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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 way plants and water shape the world.
Sean Scully / Painter
Constant
Geography
Movement
Relentless
Sea
Water
Works
Through
Changes
Plants
Shape
Transformative
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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 / Painter
Childhood
Damage
Rosy
Unhappy
Love Art Me
Love Me
Extremely
Gardens
Traumatic
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I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But later on, when I bought him a house in the south of Spain, he thought it was all right then.
Sean Scully / Painter
Spain
Dad Me Right
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My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.
Sean Scully / Painter
Arsenal
Footballer
Frustrated
Juniors
Aged
Life Work Father
Sent
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The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.
Sean Scully / Painter
Body
Painting
Spirit
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If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.
Sean Scully / Painter
Being There
Infinity
Ireland
West Coast
Edge
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I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and it's resonant. A lot of people have compared me to Brahms - that slightly melancholic sensuality that's highly structured. Well, that describes my work right there.
Sean Scully / Painter
Chords
Paint
Sensuality
Work Me People
Cello
Compared
Highly
Resonant
Slightly
Structured
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I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.
Sean Scully / Painter
Exercise
Time Long Look
Letting
Reveal
Treadmill
Stare
Very Long Time
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I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
Sean Scully / Painter
Canvas
Drawing
Lines
Paint
Rich
Surface
Tension
Want
Begin
Change Work Me
Freely
Loose
Reactive
Sized
Stretched
Thinly
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