The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
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.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
