Art Quote by William Monahan

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

I grew up in the art world.

— Cary Elwes

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my…

— Petra Collins

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

— D. H. Lawrence

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of…

— Derek Walcott

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we…

— Michel Faber

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

— Marlene Dumas

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

— Alain de Botton

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee