Folks Quote by Norman Rockwell Download Open image “Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.” — Norman Rockwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folks Life Long Thinking
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to… — Max Beckmann 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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to stop telling folks about themselves and leave it up to them to figure out where they went wrong — Danielle Lobbins Copy Share Image
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image