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Quotes About Happiness

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
~ Jean Anouilh
I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.
~ Misty Upham
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
~ Agnes Martin
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
~ Anne Murray
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
~ Billie Burke
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
~ Dolly Parton
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
~ Eric Drooker
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
~ Giles Andreae
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
~ Hartley Coleridge
I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'
~ Henry Rollins
Pain is not a conduit to art or joy
~ Jay Maisel
The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
~ John Vance Cheney
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.
~ Kathryn Hahn
In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
~ William Davenant
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
~ Winston Churchill
I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).
~ Yony Leyser
I must have flowers, always and always.
~ Claude Monet
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.
~ Unknown
Don't fear the future or regret the past but celebrate the present.
~ Unknown