High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

The No. 1 quote critics give me is, 'Thom, your work is irrelevant.' Now, that's a fascinating, fascinating comment. Yes, irrelevant to the little subculture, this microculture, of modern art. But here's the point: My art is relevant because it's relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

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.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,