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Checkout quotes by Sean Scully on Work

• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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