109 Quotes by Thomas Kinkade

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

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.

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.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

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.

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.