31 Quotes by Sean Scully

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.

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.

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

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.