Andre Dubus III Quotes

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

Art and life are inseparable.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.