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Norman Rockwell

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I'm the oldest antique in town.


— Norman Rockwell


#i #oldest #town

I'm tired, but proud.


— Norman Rockwell


#proud #tired

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.


— Norman Rockwell


#avenue #away #far #far away #grew

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.


— Norman Rockwell


#clown #i #me #painting #president

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.


— Norman Rockwell


#efforts #god #had #i #leave

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!


— Norman Rockwell


#conscience #feeling #got #his #illustrations

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.


— Norman Rockwell


#beginning #capture #completely #everything #i

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.


— Norman Rockwell


#been #folks #haven #i #life

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.


— Norman Rockwell


#back #course #i #just #much

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, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!


— Norman Rockwell


#hand #his #i #interesting #into






About Norman Rockwell

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Did you know about Norman Rockwell?

Rockwell's work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime. He spent the next ten years painting for Look magazine where his work depicted his interests in civil rights poverty and space exploration. [citation needed]

Rockwell's family moved to New Rochelle New York when Norman was 21 years old and shared a studio with the cartoonist Clyde Forsythe who worked for The Saturday Evening Post.

Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture.

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