"If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems."

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Source : Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post”, Bookthrift

Norman Rockwell

#Humorous Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Creative Quotes

“In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.”
“If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.”
“If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.”
“If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.”
“You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.”
“There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture â€” especially the innovation culture â€” of a company.”

Source : "Futures, experience and design". Interview with Nik Baerten, medium.com. February 15, 2016.
“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
“Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.”

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