I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.
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.
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…
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 paint life as I would like it to be. - Norman Rockwell
I paint life as I would like it to be.
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.
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…
I just wanted to do something important. - Norman Rockwell
I just wanted to do something important.
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