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

- Norman Rockwell

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

- Norman Rockwell

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

- 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.

- Norman Rockwell

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

- Norman Rockwell

I just wanted to do something important.

- 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…

- Norman Rockwell

I paint life as I would like it to be.

- 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…

- Norman Rockwell