Happy Artist Quotes

#1. The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Sylvester Stallone

#2. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Neil Jackson

#3. I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

Sinead O'Connor

#4. My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

Garth Brooks

#5. All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Upton Sinclair

#6. I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Laurie Anderson

#7. Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

Olivia Wilde

#8. My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music ... I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

Ziggy Marley

#9. I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.

Lady Saw

#10. I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

Hoodie Allen

#11. I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

Mike Tyson

#12. I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

Jimmy Cliff

#13. I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

Michael Craig-Martin

#14. I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

J.C. Lillis

#15. Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging ... I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.

Adele

#16. The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

Mario Batali

#17. Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.

Wendy Starland

#18. Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

Nathan Sawaya

#19. One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

Andres Serrano

#20. No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written ... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

Don McLean

#21. Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of.

Heavy D

#22. We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

Bob Ross

#23. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Georges Simenon

#24. An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

Robin Gibb

#25. I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Shelley Duvall

#26. As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

Seungri

#28. All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

Peter Schjeldahl

#29. I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

Jimmy Cliff

#30. I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

Britney Spears

#31. If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Brian K. Vaughan

#32. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.

Jeremy McCarter

#33. So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.

Mahmoud Reda

#34. I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#35. You will not always be happy but I guarantee it that you will always be lucky as an artist when you least expect it.

Abigail George

#36. I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

Toni Collette

#37. He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.

Thomas Bernhard

#38. I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

Marina And The Diamonds

#39. Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Aldous Huxley

#40. Coaching is my way of helping aspiring and professional writers get the kind of help and guidance that it took me years to piece together. I do workshops and coach people one on one. It's really fun and I'm happy that I can support artists who are looking to move ahead in their work and career.

Steven C. Harper

#41. Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Bertrand Russell

#42. I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Heather Demetrios

#43. Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#44. Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

Kapil Sharma

#45. I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

Damien Hirst

#46. I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book that I did and dreaming about being a comic book artist. That's what the magic is, everything else is just production and a job.

Marko Djurdjevic

#47. If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

David Guetta

#48. When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

Kelly Price

#49. 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.

Grace Gealey

#50. The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

William McFee

#51. If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Willem De Kooning