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Norman Rockwell
6 quotes
“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. (Somebody once said that I paint the kind of girls your mother would want you to marry.)”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Norman Rockwell, My Adventures As An Illustrator : An Autobiography (1979), p 24
“Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Fodor's New England (2008) by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 61
“Gary LaCoste had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 198
“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.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
“I really believed that the war against Hitler would bring the Four Freedoms to everyone. But I couldn’t paint that today. I just don’t believe it. I was doing this best-possible-world, Santa-down-the-chimney, lovely-kids-adoring-their-kindly-grandpa sort of thing. And I liked it, but now I’m sick of it.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1977, quoted in The Atlantic