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“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
#Successful #Joy #Balance
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“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
#Prayer #Light #Knowing
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“I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Believe #Light #Normal
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“Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Fire #Imagination #Soul
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“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
#Peace #Passion #Sifting
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“Thankfulness can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and dissatisfied.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Stress #Worry #Anxiety
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“I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Unconditional Love #People #Trying
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“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Successful #Joy #Balance
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“My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Heart #Blessing #Color
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“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
#Painting #Used
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“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
#Art #Culture #Tides
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“I view art as an inspirational tool.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Art #Views #Tools
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“The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Keys #Romance #Important
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“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
#Falling In Love #Fall #Love Life
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“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
#Summer #Snow #Wife
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“The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Generosity #Giving #Joy
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“A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Art #Pieces #Form
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“Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Sunset #Garden #Cozy
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“We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Heart #Kind #Buried
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“Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Uplifting #Mind #Input
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“The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Christmas #Blessing #Flow
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“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
#Mom #Magazines #Evening
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“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
#Dad #Home #Years
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“I am really the most controversial artist in the world.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Artist #World #Controversial
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“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
#Eye #Light #Etc
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“I'm a warrior for light.”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Warrior #Light
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“We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,”
-- Thomas Kinkade
#Art #People #Way
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“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
#Kids #Dignity #Kind
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“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
#Wall #Home #People
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“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
#Communication #Home #Machines
