The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I’d whip out the paints and really go to it. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
A face in the picture would bother me, so I’d rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you’ll get a natural expression. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
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. Norman Rockwell Read Quote
