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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.