Sean Scully Quotes

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it's just a good time.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular.

Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.

I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.

I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.

I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.

When you are lonely, you get desperate to find a companion. My advice is instead of seeking Mr Right, use the time to hone your talents or workout at a gym. You may just meet someone special along the way.

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn't famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.