Quotes by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor’s. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

Actors

Artist

Mouths

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

Character

England

Strong

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

Artist

Remembered

Visionaries

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I’d love it if the critics would notice me, too.

Artist

Letters

People

I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.

Artist

Hard Times

Stars

I just wanted to do something important.

Important

Wanted

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

Bus

Lockers

Stuff

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly… or like somebody’s mother.

Mother

Sexy

Stupid

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I’m doing so I’ll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject’s personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

Artist

Expression

Order

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it – pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers… only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

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Kids

Mother

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Quotes by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor’s. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I’d love it if the critics would notice me, too.

I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.

I just wanted to do something important.

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly… or like somebody’s mother.

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I’m doing so I’ll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject’s personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

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