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Painting Quotes by Thomas Kinkade
- 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.…
- The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
- 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…
- 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.
- My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
- 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…
- 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…
- The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think…
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- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat