Robert Fulghum Quotes

Art is a sense of magic.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

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

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

It's amazing what art can do.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.