Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

When money and hype recede from the art world one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

Death be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so. For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not poor death nor yet canst thou kill me.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The sinews of art and literature like those of war are money.

Those who gave thee a body furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul armed thee with resolution. Employ it and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

If thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.