Top 16 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.
Sean Scully
#2. in there," and the first guy says, "Watch." In he goes and orders a beer. "Sorry, you can't bring your dog in here," says the bartender.
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#3. Once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back.
David Mitchell
#5. If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.
Mickey Rooney
#6. So I bandaged the cut, packed up my Gillette blades and caught the eleven-thirty bus to Boston.
Sylvia Plath
#7. 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
#8. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
Wallace Stegner
#10. 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
#13. And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.
Pat Conroy
#14. I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Sean Scully
#15. 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
