Thomas Kinkade Quotes

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Some directors are like poets.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

I'm an artist at heart.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.