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People always describe small towns as quaint or cozy or familiar. "You know who your neighbors are," they always seemed to say. But what you won't find depicted in a Norman Rockwell painting is how cruel those same neighbors can be. ~ T. Torrest
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by T. Torrest
Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting. (pg 106-107) ~ Katja Millay
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Katja Millay
Just a normal dinner party, Dallas thought. Just your average, every day evening around the table with the man who may well have masterminded your kidnapping, the sister you're in love with, and the older woman you used to sleep with.
No doubt about it
as a group, they made one hell of a Norman Rockwell painting. ~ J. Kenner
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by J. Kenner
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means is something about the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal," and then it gives a series of scenarios about what -- what is and what isn't Lynchian. Jeffrey Dahmer was borderline Lynchian...what was Lynchian was having the actual food products next to the disembodied bits of the corpse. I guess the big one is, you know, a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But if the man -- if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the body and the woman -- let's see, the woman's '50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow agreeing that there were major differences between the brands and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian -- this weird confluence of very dark, surreal, violent stuff and absolute, almost Norman Rockwell, banal, American stuff, which is terrain he's been working for quite a while -- I mean, at least since -- at least since "Blue Velvet. ~ David Foster Wallace
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by David Foster Wallace
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought. ~ Dan DeCarlo
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Dan DeCarlo
Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport. ~ Jerry Saltz
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Jerry Saltz
I'm tired, but proud. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
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
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and 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 kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author. ~ Sonia Rumzi
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Sonia Rumzi
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. ~ Susan Cheever
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Susan Cheever
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
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
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
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
I'm the oldest antique in town. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?' She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed. ~ Bob Smith
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Bob Smith
I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear. ~ Michael P. Naughton
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Michael P. Naughton
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
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
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
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy. ~ Thomas Kinkade
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Thomas Kinkade
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. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch. ~ Manny Farber
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Manny Farber
I collect rare photographs ... I have two ... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car ... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child. ~ Steven Wright
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Steven Wright
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. ~ Nancy Gibbs
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Norman Rockwell saved my life. ~ Jane Allen Petrick
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Jane Allen Petrick
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. ~ Brad Holland
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Brad Holland
White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. June Cleaver was its mother, Andy Griffith was its sheriff, Norman Rockwell was its artist. and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale were its ministers. ~ Robert P. Jones
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Robert P. Jones
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. ~ Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Norman Rockwell
Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With the exception of doctors and lawyers or people who owned their own business, there were no high-paying jobs in Oriental, or any other small town for that matter. And while is was in many way an ideal place to raise young children, there was little for young adults to aspire to.There weren't, nor would there ever be, middle management positions in small towns, nor was there much to do on the weekends, or even new people to meet ~ Nicholas Sparks
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Nicholas Sparks
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else. ~ Laurie Colwin
Norman Rockwell Painting quotes by Laurie Colwin
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