Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade
William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via the Thomas Kinkade Company. He characterized himself as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light," a phrase he protected through trademark but one originally attributed to the British master J. M. W. Turner. It has been estimated that 1 in every 20 American homes owns a copy of one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth19 January 1958
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
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.
We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
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.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Focus. With so many creative minds around the company, there are always more projects than we can effectively take on at one time.
I blend time frames in my paintings. I tend to like things without the reference of time. A garden could be now, it could be 100 years ago. It's a garden. When I paint hometown settings, things like that, there is a sense of embracing an older life, but I have to say I like to mix time frames. I like to paint what could be now, if the right cars were on the street.
She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.
My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.