The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.
Sean ScullyI do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
Sean ScullyWhen 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 ScullyI was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Sean ScullyI 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