Thomas Kinkade quote: "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."

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past...
THOMAS KINKADE

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it...
THOMAS KINKADE

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents ...
THOMAS KINKADE

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination ...
THOMAS KINKADE

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further ...
THOMAS KINKADE

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to ba...
THOMAS KINKADE

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are bein...
THOMAS KINKADE

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in t...
THOMAS KINKADE

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead t...
THOMAS KINKADE

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to te...
THOMAS KINKADE

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the message...
THOMAS KINKADE

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
THOMAS KINKADE

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
THOMAS KINKADE

The No. 1 quote critics give me is, 'Thom, your work is irrelevant.' Now, that's a fasci...
THOMAS KINKADE

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I ...
THOMAS KINKADE

Art transcends cultural boundaries.
THOMAS KINKADE

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doe...
THOMAS KINKADE

Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Cla...
AMELIA KINKADE

We always expected that Beebe would reap the benefits of his many contacts with special interests in...
DAVID KINKADE

It's been fantastic. He's been campaigning for over a year now, and he's been to ever corner of the ...
DAVID KINKADE

He's really looking forward to a great evening with White County Republicans and whoever else wants ...
DAVID KINKADE

If elected governor, he'll take the appropriate steps to ensure there are no conflicts, just as we e...
DAVID KINKADE

Our position is that if state ethics laws have been broken, that's a serious concern. But we don't k...
DAVID KINKADE

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS

My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS

I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS

I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ

The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON

I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS

The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp...
CLARENCE THOMAS

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i...
DEBI THOMAS

Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN

When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN

The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS

I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL

My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
THOMAS TRAHERNE

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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.

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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. 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.

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