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“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

#Adventure #Artist #Long
“I just wanted to do something important.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Important #Wanted
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Enough Time #Enough #Paint
“The story is the first thing and the last thing,”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Firsts #Stories #Lasts
“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Appreciation #Tired #Curious
“I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Birthday #Fool #Celebration
“My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Paris #Effort #Thank God
“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

#Mother #Sexy #Silly
“Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Strong #Character #England
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#People #Evil #Lazy
“The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Country #Artist #Years
“It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Artist #President #Painting
“I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Kids #Years #Luxury
“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

#Hands #Interesting #Trying
“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

#Views #Ugly #Paint
“No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Men #Illustration #Feelings
“If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Puppy #Wells
“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

#Artist #Actors #Mouths
“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

#Stars #Hard Times #Artist
“I'm tired, but proud.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Tired #Proud
“If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Dog #Feet #Sick
“Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Thinking #Long #Folks
“I paint life as I would like it to be,”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Paint
“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

#New York #Eye #Artist
“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Artist #Expression #Order
“Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Art #Character #Students
“I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Age #Daylight #Fatigue
“Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Artist #Saws #Capture
“I'm the oldest antique in town.”
-- Norman Rockwell

#Antiques #Towns
“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

#Couple #Dollars #Rich

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