Sean Scully Quotes

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Art is truth.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

I always start a painting with the sky.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

The moment of change is the only poem.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.