In a lot of my paintings there is a humidity to the colour, they are never very dry-looking. There is always a kind of dampness to them and this is coming from the sky or the sea, the way that colour seems to float around in the air.

Sean Scully, interview with Hans-Michael Herzog, New York, 13 December 1998, in Sean Scully: Paintings, watercolours, photographs (exhibition catalogue), Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2001, pp. 221–230 (p. 227).