Thomas Kinkade Quotes

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Through art, you create your own world.

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

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.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

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

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.