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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
Explore more 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."
"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
"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."
"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."
"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
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