“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've alway...” — Norman Rockwell Quote

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.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

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.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Surprise is key in all art.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.