Norman Rockwell

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.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

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

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.

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

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

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