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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Joy prompts courage. (Hans Christian Andersen)
Don't explain, enjoy. (Darby Bannard)
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (James M. Barrie)
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. (Henri Bergson)
And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child my joy to hear (William Blake)
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! (Louise Bogan)
The joy's in the process, not the product. (Fay Bohlayer)
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. (Charles du Bois)
Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come... if I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable. (Adolfe-William Bouguereau)
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. (Constantin Brancusi)
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, / Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. (Rupert Brooke)
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. (James Brown)
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy! (Robert Browning)
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. (Pearl S. Buck)
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. (Samuel Butler)
The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. (Charles Buxton)
A grave mistake is to paint only for the end results and not for the joy of painting! (Leanne Cadden)
Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. (Joseph Campbell)
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. (Albert Camus)
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor)
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. (Thomas Carlyle)
I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? (Mary Cassatt)
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. (Winston Churchill)
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. (Dr. Melba Colgrove)
If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment. (Andre Derain)
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. (Charles Dickens)
I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me. (Placido Domingo)
Joy is not dependent on circumstances. (Faith Duck)
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. (Albrecht Durer)
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. (Eleonora Duse)
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it "joy"? (Andrea Dworkin)
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility. (Eric Fischl)
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse. (Sara Genn)
Joy and sorrow are inseparable... together they come and when one sits alone with you... remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. (Kahlil Gibran)
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. (Andre Gide)
The joy of making art must lie in freedom; to be as we want to be, say what we want to say, and be known as we wish to be known. It sounds easy, but it's very hard to trust ourselves and value what is meaningful in our seemingly ordinary lives. (John Gilboy)
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Upon seeing them, I was excited. The image was so gorgeous – the setting sun made the flowers burst with life! (Corinne Groeneveld)
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure. (Lawren Harris)
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. (Robert Henri)
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. (Robert Henri)
The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment. (Winslow Homer)
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. (Edward Hopper)
When colors merge and forms take shape, it is an experience of God's presence and my soul sings... (Julie Rodriguez Jones)
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? (Franz Kafka)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? (Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born. (Jack Kerouac)
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didn't know was in you. (Larry L. King)
Having found my bliss, it's bigger than intoxication. It's not some nebulous location you must continually strive for. (Jane Kley)
Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world. (Dalai Lama)
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy. (George B. Leonard)
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling; feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist's highest joy. (Thomas Mann)
There is a curiously sharp sense of joy – or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy – that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation. (Rollo May)
Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. (C. W. Metcalf)
Jump for joy! Life moves in leaps and bounds so enjoy the ride. (Minna)
I'm a painter first. I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy. (Joni Mitchell)
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. (William Morris)
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art and knowledge. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
-arriving in New Mexico...
Well! Well! Well!... This is wonderful. No one told me it was like this! (Georgia O'Keeffe)
I get my highs from using my eyes. (Philip Pearlstein)
When I make my sculpture or medal, I first hold the clay in my palm: It nests in it comfortably. I always hope that one day it will nest in another palm and give the same joy that it gives me to create it. (Dora de Pedery-Hunt)
The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it. (Jan Phillips)
All the sorrows, all the bitternesses, all the sadnesses, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. (Camille Pissarro)
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. (Chinese proverb)
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. (Anthony Robbins)
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. / Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, / Existence is simply illusion. (Fred Rogers)
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. (Jim Rohn)
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Joy is how the universe reminds you that you're alive. (Marc Rosenbush)
When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. (Rumi)
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. (John Ruskin)
Mirth is like a flash of lightening that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Bertrand Russell)
The decision to live blissfully is ours. (Linda Saccoccio)
We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. (Mitsugi Saotome)
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer. (May Sarton)
It is a visual joy to watch the grays in the morning light turn to color by the sun, watch evenings with color-saturated shadows; see how the noonday sun flattens, how colors sing on a rainy day. (Jo Scott-B)
The joy that isn't shared dies young. (Anne Sexton)
This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (George Bernard Shaw)
The soul's joy lies in doing. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? (Edmund Spenser)
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. (Mother Teresa)
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite... (Twyla Tharp)
It is the epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (Mark Twain)
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. (Chuang Tzu)
You can't take joy home in your pockets... (unknown)
I'm giving up feeling bad and I'm diving headfirst into the sheer joy of painting. It's no longer a sink or swim proposition. It feels good just in the water. (Janet Warrick)
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. (Eudora Welty)
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. (Rebecca West)
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand – fearing naught and dreading no exposure. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler)
What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity. (Oscar Wilde)
Joy has no cost. (Marianne Williamson)
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