My work is based on immersion ... I am taking on the history of art, I’m immersed in it and I’m immersed in what I make. I am what I make in other words; there is no difference.

Sean Scully, interview with R. Eric Davis, Journal of Contemporary Art, 1999,
on-line version, http://www.jca-online.com/scully.html, downloaded 18 April 2004.