Grandma Moses Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Grandma Moses:

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


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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses


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


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If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
~Grandma Moses


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grandma-moses-quotes/#c59e5556

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grandma-moses-quotes/#206b0f7e

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other 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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grandma-moses-quotes/#0e222881

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grandma-moses-quotes/#04455d3b

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