“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.” — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
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… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it -… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
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,… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell Copy Share
