There is an opinion that people who is keen on art feel better. In my opinion, art is able to make to you happier only if it is your hobby or not the only one thing you do for a living, because being an artist as a full time job is really stressful and can even cause serious mental problems.
To begin with, I am convinced that doing art and having any creative hobbies can make you feel better in different ways. Lots of people choose to be involved in that kind of activities to deal with stress and negative emotions, because it often turns to be very meditative and relaxing. Besides, even doctors recommend their patients to start visiting any kind of art therapy to cope with heart problems. A large number of people also have a need to express their opinion on different problems or their worldview through art.
By contrast, I disagree with the idea of art as a full time job which is considered to make people feel better, because it can cause plenty of problems by many different reasons. It is really likely that if a person chose a career path connected with any creative sphere their wealth would be not really stable and sometimes depend on inspiration or state of mental health. It means that life of that person is riskier and it is not something that makes most of the people feel better.
To sum up, I believe that art as hobby is able to improve people’s life whereas as a profession it can lead to plenty of different troubles.