Norman Rockwell Quotes - Page 2

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• Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

  Norman Rockwell

  Couple, Dollars, Rich

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• 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.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Age, Sitting

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• I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

  Norman Rockwell

  Birthday, Fool, Celebration

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• 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.

  Norman Rockwell

  Editors, Office, Magazines

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• You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

  Norman Rockwell

  Expression, Relax, Firsts

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• I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

  Norman Rockwell

  Stars, Artist, Hard Times

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• Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Character, Students

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• My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

  Norman Rockwell

  Humor, Artist, Paris

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• 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.

  Norman Rockwell

  Batteries, Needs, Get Away

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• I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Expression, Order

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• It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, President, Painting

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• If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.

  Norman Rockwell

  Helping, Posts, Ifs

  Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 28 Sep1986.

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• Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

  Norman Rockwell

  Strong, Character, England

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• Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

  Norman Rockwell

  Hands, Interesting, Trying

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• Eisenhower 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

  Artist, Actors, Mouths

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 198), 1978.

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• I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

  Norman Rockwell

  Lockers, Stuff, Bus

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• I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

  Norman Rockwell

  Kids, Luxury, Should Have

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