All history and art are against us, but we still expect…

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”

— Bernard de Fontanelle

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

— Gautama Buddha

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled;…

— Camille Paglia

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

— Earl Nightingale

Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way…

— Junot Diaz

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile -…

— Rusty Schweickart

I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I…

— Pete Doherty

“Having worked so hard to have children, parents may feel it's only natural to expect happiness from the experience. And they'll find happiness of…

— Jennifer Senior

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when…

— Douglas Coupland

I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not…

— Dar Williams

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry,…

— Nancy Mitford

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be…

— Quentin Crisp