Sean Scully Quotes

#1. I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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