It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.