"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."

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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

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Explore more quotes by Norman Rockwell

"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."

Woman

"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

"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

"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

"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."

Life

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

Time

"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"

Old

"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

"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"

Talent

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

Time