31 Quotes by Sean Scully

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

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

When I was a teenager, I was very political.

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.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

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.