31 Quotes by Sean Scully

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

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.