Grandma Moses quotes

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 am satisfied with it. View quote
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. View quote
Grandma Moses
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. View quote
Grandma Moses
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. View quote
Grandma Moses
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. View quote
Grandma Moses
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. View quote
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. View quote
Grandma Moses
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. View quote
Grandma Moses
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. View quote
Grandma Moses