Sean Scully Quotes
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
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I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.
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In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
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We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.
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If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.
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Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.
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The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
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Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
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It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day.
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I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
