"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."

God, Paris, Sense

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"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."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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Explore more quotes by Norman Rockwell

"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."

Now

"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."

Pretty

"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."

Art

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

Fool

"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."

Expression

"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."

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"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."

Time

"I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him."

Time

"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."

Painting

"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."

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