Rockwell Quotes

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport. (Jerry Saltz)
The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. View quote
Arthur Danto
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. View quote
Steve Buscemi
Garfield: "Old boy! Do you think my name will have a place in human history?" Rockwell: "Yes, a grand one, but a grander one in human hearts. Old fellow, you mustn't talk in that way. You have a great work yet to perform." View quote
James A. Garfield
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy. View quote
Thomas Kinkade
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. View quote
Dorothy Hamill
I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true. View quote
Douglas Booth
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. View quote
James Wolcott
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. View quote
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate. View quote
Justin Long
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch. (Manny Farber)
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. View quote
Brad Holland
"Judge” Andrew Napolitano is at it again, legitimizing some of the worst people in American politics on his Fox News online show. This time around, he's pimping for Ron Paul and racialist paleocon Lew Rockwell... [Ron Paul is] a kook with weird unworkable ideas about the economy (return to the gold standard? you've gotta be kidding) and unsavory racist connections. View quote
Charles Foster Johnson
Mr. Beck says he once heard a visitor to one of his shows characterize the work as ‘Norman Rockwell gone bad.' That sums up his territory: Mr. Beck seems determined to take America's pulse at the end of the century, and it races. Mr. Beck's sturdily built characters tend to smile a lot, but it's obvious that the smiles mask anxieties. View quote
Martin Beck