I think my paintings rely on repression and expression, which in me, of course, causes great discomfort, great unease and struggle. In a certain way, the paintings are based on a distrust of both possibilities.

Sean Scully, cited in Sean Scully and Mimmo Paladino, ‘In at the deep end’, Modern Painters, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 25–27 (p. 25).