Grandma Moses Quotes

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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Grandma Moses
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it.

Grandma Moses
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses
I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Grandma Moses
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses
What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward. The one is of today, the other is of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Grandma Moses
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

Grandma Moses
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Grandma Moses
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

Grandma Moses
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

Grandma Moses
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Grandma Moses