Norman Rockwell Quotes

1894–1978 United States

Norman Percevel Rockwell (3 February 1894 – 8 November 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture.

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

A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography‎ (1978)

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.

A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography‎ (1978)

Santa and Expense Book appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post published December 4, 1920.

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.

Fodor's New England (2008)

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to become curious and appreciative.

Gramps at the Plate was the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, published 5-Aug-1916.

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.)

My Adventures As An Illustrator : An Autobiography (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Rockwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.