Thomas Kinkade Quotes

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

I need to write to be happy.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

It's really, really great; it's special when people embrace your music.

The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations to achieve that result.

My art completes my life.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun - maybe not always in a way that's lighthearted, but always in a way that's satisfying.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

Mooo!' was one of those songs where I was like thank God people like it because I like it, too. When I made it I was having fun so I can only pull positive emotions from that memory.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.