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

— Norman Rockwell

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More quotes by Norman Rockwell

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)

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.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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