Thomas Kinkade quotes

I'm a warrior for light. (Thomas Kinkade)
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
Thomas Kinkade
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade
I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
Thomas Kinkade
You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.
Thomas Kinkade
Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
Thomas Kinkade
Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
Thomas Kinkade
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
Thomas Kinkade
I view art as an inspirational tool.
Thomas Kinkade
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
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A piece of art is a compact form of the universe. (Thomas Kinkade)
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
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I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
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My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
Thomas Kinkade
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
Thomas Kinkade
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
Thomas Kinkade
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
Thomas Kinkade
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
Thomas Kinkade
People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.
Thomas Kinkade
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kinkade
I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment. (Thomas Kinkade)
I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
Thomas Kinkade
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
Thomas Kinkade
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.
Thomas Kinkade
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
Thomas Kinkade