“If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.” IfsProblemHappinessArtist Author:Willem de Kooning
“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.” MenWorldWantArtStillsBookHappinessJoyLyingArtistTimeLostEnjoySinExcellencePermanentImmortalityCoveredButterflyFloodMonarchyVeniceSinkingGreat BookDamsFlorence Author:Romare Bearden
“[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.” HappinessArtistTroubleMusicianSlogansNeedy Author:Malvina Hoffman
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” GivingLooksHappinessArtistHatePleasureSituationIndividualityPermitSparesDichotomySpare Time Author:Pablo Picasso
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” LifeInspirationalArtHappinessArtistCreativityGreaterSelf LoveDisciplineIntegrityOneselfMasterySelf Mastery Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” PainHappinessArtistEvilInterestingTroubleStupidHabitTerribleIntellectualBoredomConsideringRefusalBad HabitsTreasonBanalityPendants Author:Ursula K. Le Guin