Thomas Kinkade Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

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

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

What is art but a way of seeing?

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.