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Norman Rockwell - From the Aging category:
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know! (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Appreciation category:
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Artists category:
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Audience category:
I cannot convince myself that a painting is good unless it is popular. If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Contentment category:
When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Critics category:
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Desire category:
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Dissatisfaction category:
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Drawing category:
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Effort category:
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Exhaustion category:
I'm tired, but proud. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Idealism category:
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Models category:
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Money category:
I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Photography category:
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Portraiture category:
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Portraiture category:
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Possibilities category:
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Problems category:
If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Profession category:
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Purpose category:
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Questions category:
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Sadness category:
If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems. (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell - From the Subject category:
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. (Norman Rockwell)
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