"the painter of light"

Hope: Don't give up on yourself. 

Thomas Kinkade: I'm not giving up. 

Glen: It's my last painting, Thom... I have been trying to paint my sorrow, to show a bleakness of a world without Nicole, but then you came with a candle last night, and I knew what Nicole's memorial should be. Not darkness, but light. Sometimes we can barely see beyond the forest to the sky. I was painting the leaves of the forest and never saw the light of the sky behind it. Now I see it. That's all I need to see now. 

                               Christmas Cottage (2008)