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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!

~Norman Rockwell

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

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

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I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: February 3rd, 1894

Died: November 8th, 1978

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