"The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back."

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Source : "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

Norman Rockwell

#Adventure Quotes #Artist Quotes #Long Quotes

“It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.”
“Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.”
“Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.”
“He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.”
“The only thing we're allowed to is to believe that we won't regret the choice we made.”
“We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.”
“People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.”
“Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.”

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