[Huck]

It's almost sad: Vivid interactions between people, remembered jointly in the country's collective consciousness, may never have taken place.

What an idiotic statement.

[Tublecane]

“What an idiotic statement.”

Exactly. Is it “sad” that Da Vinci, Raphael, Valasquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, etc. posed people for their paintings? Heck no.

[Peter W. Kessler]

All the time I was in college, Norman Rockwell was ridiculed by professors for portraying a false image of life in the United States.

I stopped them in their tracks by suggesting that Rockwell’s paintings portrayed a goal to be striven for.

Norman Rockwell is my all-time favorite artist. His paintings make me reach for the Kleenex.