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Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha. — Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell saved my life. — Jane Allen Petrick

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else. — Laurie Colwin

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. — Norman Rockwell

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. — Nancy Gibbs

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left. — Norman Rockwell

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. — Norman Rockwell

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. — Norman Rockwell

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

The story is the first thing and the last thing, — Norman Rockwell

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? — Norman Rockwell

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell

If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself. — Norman Rockwell

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible. — Norman Rockwell

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. — Norman Rockwell

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. — Norman Rockwell

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker. — Norman Rockwell

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. — Norman Rockwell

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear. — Michael P. Naughton

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

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell. — Steve Hackett

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

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy. — Thomas Kinkade

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author. — Sonia Rumzi

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

I'm tired, but proud. — Norman Rockwell

I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell

Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting. (pg 106-107) — Katja Millay

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

I paint life as I would like it to be, — Norman Rockwell

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays! — Norman Rockwell

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. — Norman Rockwell

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. — Norman Rockwell

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell