Sean Scully (b. 1945)

‘It is sometimes said that all art aspires to the condition of music. I would like my art to aspire to something like the condition of music, but a condition that can be felt and experienced in a deep moment. I think with painting you can get rid of the problem of time. You can feel it abstracted in the rhythms, in the layers of the painting, but you are, for a moment, free’ (S. Scully, quoted in D. Carrier, Sean Scully, London 2004, p. 210).