Norman Rockwell
Quotations

"I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed."

 

"My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I guess I am a story teller."

 

"Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative."

 

"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. "