+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++
"I'm a great believer in the importance of first impressions. That's one
reason why Boulevard Lights, Paris is so dear to me; it's the first print in
my new City Impressions collection.
The City of Lights has been a springboard to my imagination even before the
first of my many visits there. You see, my mother had a print on her wall an
energetic, dazzlingly lit Paris as seen by a 19th century street painter that
captivated me as a child. So it seemed natural to launch my first
Impressionistic series by honoring the art of such giants as Beraud, Cortes,
Galien-LaLoue, with a celebration of the city that has inspired master
artists of every era.
I have enjoyed such a bustling vision of light and color in one of my
journeys to Paris I just couldn't tell you exactly where or when. Because of
this, Boulevard Lights, Paris exists for me in that ethereal world between
experience and imagination that we call memory. And perhaps that is just as
well. Because somewhere in the heart of everyone who daydreams is an
imaginary memory of Paris."
~~Thomas Kinkade
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