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.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! - 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
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. - Norman Rockwell
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
The story is the first thing and the last thing. - Norman Rockwell
The story is the first thing and the last thing.
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
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and shar… - Norman Rockwell
I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and shar…
I just wanted to do something important. - Norman Rockwell
I just wanted to do something important.
If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it. - Norman Rockwell
If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.
I paint life as I would like it to be. - Norman Rockwell
I paint life as I would like it to be.
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… - Norman Rockwell
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…
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