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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 My Adventures As An Illustrator : An Autobiography (1979)

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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.

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