Age Quote by Damien Hirst

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look…

— Nan Goldin

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine…

— Cheech Marin

My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was…

— Florence Welch

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma…

— Colm Toibin

I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can…

— Joyelle McSweeney

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert…

— Lynda Resnick

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was…

— Nick Hornby

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however…

— Julian Schnabel

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual…

— Kiki Smith

You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely…

— Julia Sweeney