Top 50 Thomas Kinkade Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.”

— Thomas Kinkade

2. “I’m a warrior for light.”

— Thomas Kinkade

3. “When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.”

— Thomas Kinkade

4. “You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It’s just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can’t throw enough darkness on light to put it out.”

— Thomas Kinkade

5. “Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.”

— Thomas Kinkade

6. “The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God’s purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.”

— Thomas Kinkade

7. “Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.”

— Thomas Kinkade

8. “I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.”

— Thomas Kinkade

9. “People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.”

— Thomas Kinkade

10. “Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.”

— Thomas Kinkade

11. “When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.”

— Thomas Kinkade

12. “The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.”

— Thomas Kinkade

13. “Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.”

— Thomas Kinkade

14. “I love audio books, and when I paint I’m always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I’m listening to audio books.”

— Thomas Kinkade

15. “Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.”

— Thomas Kinkade

16. “Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.”

— Thomas Kinkade

17. “Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart.”

— Thomas Kinkade

18. “Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.”

— Thomas Kinkade

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19. “The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.”

— Thomas Kinkade

20. “Cherish the people who make up your home, and you’ll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

— Thomas Kinkade

21. “My life shines with God’s radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy.”

— Thomas Kinkade

22. “I view art as an inspirational tool.”

— Thomas Kinkade

23. “I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.”

— Thomas Kinkade

24. “The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant’s heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.”

— Thomas Kinkade

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

— Thomas Kinkade

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

— Thomas Kinkade

27. “When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality...”

— Thomas Kinkade

28. “Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.”

— Thomas Kinkade

29. “I am really the most controversial artist in the world.”

— Thomas Kinkade

30. “I’m working on a snow scene right now, and it’s summer. It’s hot, and I will get chilly. I’ll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it’s 95 degrees in the studio. I know it’s nutty, but it’s a projection you have where you step into the painting.”

— Thomas Kinkade

31. “Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul...”

— Thomas Kinkade

32. “I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.”

— Thomas Kinkade

33. “Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.”

— Thomas Kinkade

34. “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.”

— Thomas Kinkade

35. “The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.”

— Thomas Kinkade

36. “With whatever talent and resources I have, I’m trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.”

— Thomas Kinkade

37. “A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.”

— Thomas Kinkade

38. “The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention.”

— Thomas Kinkade

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39. “To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life – all of life – and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully.”

— Thomas Kinkade

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

— Thomas Kinkade

41. “I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.”

— Thomas Kinkade

42. “It’s a simple liberating reality – the best things in life are mine for the choosing...”

— Thomas Kinkade

43. “It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are ’almost done.”

— Thomas Kinkade

44. “I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.”

— Thomas Kinkade

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

— Thomas Kinkade

46. “We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.”

— Thomas Kinkade

47. “I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I’ve done my job.”

— Thomas Kinkade

48. “The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.”

— Thomas Kinkade

49. “It’s when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.”

— Thomas Kinkade

50. “A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don’t have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It’s just there every day. It’s not limited by the element of time. It’s a constant part of the home.”

— Thomas Kinkade