Sean Scully Quotes

Art and life are inseparable.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Art is not only about angst.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

Art is feminine.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.