Best quotes by Sean Scully on Art

Checkout quotes by Sean Scully on 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.

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

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• ‟ Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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

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

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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