By Steven Spielberg, on Norman Rockwell
“I think Rockwell was a great humorist. So many of his paintings are evocative of the humor of the times, innocent humor, not raunchy humor like we have today, but innocent humor like stepping on a girl’s toes at the dance. This is something we’ve all done when we were younger and we still do at my age. This was Rockwell extolling the virtues of this 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s innocence, which is how he saw America. Simple values and simple moments. . . .”
-Steven Spielberg