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Sean Scully
Sean Scully
American Artist
Born: Jun 30, 1945
Art Me People Sense Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
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. Sean Scully
Art World Water Plants Changes Way Relentless Constant Through Shape Like Geography Just Movement Transformative Sea Works
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. Sean Scully
Art Me School Thought Paradise Nothing Could Driven Got Art School Artist Stop Wanted Much Really
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. Sean Scully
Work Me Change Sense Rich Stretched Drawing Kind Simply Tension Freely Reactive Loose Surface Line Very Begin Want Sized Which Canvas Paint Thinly
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. Sean Scully
Sense Living Mythic Irish Romantic
When I was a teenager, I was very political. Sean Scully
Political Teenager Very
I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around. Sean Scully
Work People Other Like Around Person Quite Social Communicator
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. Sean Scully
Work Art School Own Young Kid My Own Course Geometry Art School Loved Which Young Kid Sensual Inherent
Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare! Sean Scully
Art World Without George Orwell Imagine Nightmare
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. Sean Scully
Time History Business Logical Long Long Time Odds Our Tendencies Been Very Very Long Time Human Romantic Unifying Human History Really Two
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. Sean Scully
People Job Sense Easier Abstraction Return Without Said Lot Than Done Which Bar Lowering
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. Sean Scully
Sad Painting Extremely Finish Emotional Profoundly
I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art. Sean Scully
Art History Other More Than Any Artist The History Of Use
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. Sean Scully
Love Art Me Love Me Unhappy Parents Extremely Say Out Come Course Childhood Rosy Traumatic Gardens Damage

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