Norman Rockwell

I'm not a genius, but I'm not stupid either.

I try to make my pictures appealing, but I also try to make them honest.

I'm not a philosopher, but I do think about things.

I try to make my pictures beautiful, but I also try to make them real.

I'm not a great artist, but I try to be.

I try to make my pictures tell a story, and I try to make that story a good one.

I'm not a genius, but I work hard.

I try to make my pictures understandable to everyone, not just art critics.

I'm not a social commentator, but my pictures do reflect society.

I try to paint life as I would like it to be, but I also paint it as it is.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that they don't make a living from their art.

Commonplaces never become tiresome.

You must first spend time painting nature if you want to paint from memory.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds the world a sort of bitter place.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a good purpose.

I work as a painter and a draftsman and as a commercial artist, and I think that all those things are the same.

The illustrations were in earnest, and I was trying to show a cross-section of American life as I saw it.

Humor has to come from the heart, or it's no good.

I don't like to say I started the war on poverty. I don't think I did, but I certainly was among the ones who made a fuss about it.

No man with a conscience can say that he has done enough.