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Norman Rockwell Quotes

«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 wasn't born to be rich.»
«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.»
«When I came home on leave, I thought I would surely have changed into a dashing figure... just because I was dressed for the part. But my friends laughed when they saw me in my navy uniform. I guess I must have been a sight, but I didn't realize I looked that silly. And I was so proud to come home in that uniform!»
«I'm the oldest antique in town.»
«I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.»
«Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.»
«No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!»
«I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.»
«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.»
«I'm tired, but proud.»

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