Grandma Moses Quotes

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

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• 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

  Memories, Past, Brain

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• People should take time to be happy.

  Grandma Moses

  People, Joy, Should

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• 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.

  Grandma Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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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

  Eye, Color, Tree

  "TIME", Vol. 52, 1948.

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• Life is what you make it.

  Grandma Moses

  Wisdom, Life Is

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• 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

  Want, Paint, Leading Me

  William C. Ketchum, Moses (Grandma) (1996). “Grandma Moses: An American Original”, Smithmark Publishers

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• 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

  Inspiration, Forget Everything, People

  "Grandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist 'Just Wore Out'". The New York Times Obituary, archive.nytimes.com. December 14, 1961.

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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

  Top Down, Sky, People

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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

  Grandma Moses

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Thinking

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

  Grandma Moses

  Waiting, Helping, Help Me

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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

  Grandma Moses

  Memorable, Painting, Chickens

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

  Grandma Moses

  Artist, Artistic, Primitive

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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

  Grandma Moses

  Memories, Important, Busy

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

  Grandma Moses

  People, Would Be, Paint

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• 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.

  Grandma Moses

  Business, Years, Painting

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• 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.

  Grandma Moses

  Years, Yesterday, Childhood

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• 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

  Bible, Biblical, Years

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