Top 70 Kinkade's Quotes
#1. Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
Jerry Saltz
#3. Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Jerry Saltz
#4. Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade
#5. Hey, I'm an art lover," protested Ramirez. "I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite.
Linda Morris
#6. When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.
Thomas Kinkade
#7. A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
Thomas Kinkade
#8. It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime ...
Rob Bell
#9. The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention
Thomas Kinkade
#10. I am really the most controversial artist in the world.
Thomas Kinkade
#11. Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
Jerry Saltz
#12. Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
Thomas Kinkade
#13. 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
#14. I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.
Thomas Kinkade
#15. The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
Thomas Kinkade
#16. 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
#17. Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
Thomas Kinkade
#18. 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
#19. I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
Thomas Kinkade
#20. It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
Susan Orlean
#21. The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
Thomas Kinkade
#22. When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality ...
Thomas Kinkade
#23. Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.
Thomas Kinkade
#24. We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
Thomas Kinkade
#25. My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.
Thomas Kinkade
#26. 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
#27. My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.
Thomas Kinkade
#28. My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy
Thomas Kinkade
#29. It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing ...
Thomas Kinkade
#30. 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
#31. The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade
#32. The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.
Thomas Kinkade
#33. Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.
Thomas Kinkade
#34. Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
Thomas Kinkade
#35. The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
Jerry Saltz
#36. 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
#37. Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.
Genevieve Dewey
#38. I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
Thomas Kinkade
#39. A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
Thomas Kinkade
#40. My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.
Thomas Kinkade
#41. 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
#42. What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'
Thomas Kinkade
#43. We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,
Thomas Kinkade
#44. 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
#45. I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.
Thomas Kinkade
#46. High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
Thomas Kinkade
#47. This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.
Thomas Kinkade
#48. The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.
Thomas Kinkade
#49. I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.
Thomas Kinkade
#50. 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.
Thomas Kinkade
#51. To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully
Thomas Kinkade
#52. When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
Thomas Kinkade
#53. 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
#54. There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
Thomas Kinkade
#55. The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
Thomas Kinkade
#56. Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.
Thomas Kinkade
#57. Do you think Kinkade is Welland-Dowd? she wondered
Chase burst into laughter so booming that every head on the street rotated, startled.
Oh,God. She'd just understood when she'd said it aloud.
Welland-Dowd.
Well-endowed.
Julie Anne Long
#58. Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
Tom Bissell
#59. It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
Thomas Kinkade
#60. Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul ...
Thomas Kinkade
#61. 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
#62. I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.
Thomas Kinkade
#63. 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
#65. Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.
Thomas Kinkade
#66. The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
Thomas Kinkade
#68. Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.
Thomas Kinkade
#69. I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
Thomas Kinkade
#70. It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.
Thomas Kinkade
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