Sean Scully Quotes

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Art is science made clear.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

Art is truth.

Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

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

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

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

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things that you naturally assume to be opposite because they're presented that way most of the time, and the way she twines them together is so beautiful. To be able to do that is so powerful.