79 Quotes by Norman Rockwell

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

I'm tired, but proud.

I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor...

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing,

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