Grandma Moses Quotes

#1. A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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#2. I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday ... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent ... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

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

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#11. People should take time to be happy.

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#12. Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

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#13. If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

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#14. And life is what we make it.
Always has been, always will be.

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

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

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#17. Life is what you make it.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

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