Quotes About Happiness

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I've been taking a lot of time to paint and be in nature. I would say I'm happier as a person. More centered. More free.

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it's just a good time.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

I don't know what I'm painted as. I can be happy as hell and then someone says something and I feel different. People are going to say whatever they want to say to... get people to read their story. I just ask people to write the whole, complete story.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you should be always hopeful that's why I use bright colors in my paintings, that's what I want people to feel about me and when they see my art.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

My mum says I was the best kid ever; you could put me in a corner with a box of paints and I'd be happy for hours. They'd say, 'Lynne, Lynne,' and I wouldn't hear them.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I know many people have said it before, but there is nothing a cup of coffee and a new pair of shoes can't fix!

There's something about putting on a new pair of shoes or a new shirt that gives you a new joy.

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

My wife makes the best chocolate chip pancakes, and my son and I are only too happy to stay home and eat them.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.