If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. Grandma Moses More Quotes by Grandma Moses More Quotes From Grandma Moses I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses workpositivelife 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 brainmemoriespast 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 coloreyetree 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 forget-everythinginspirationpeople 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 leading-mepaintwant Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. Grandma Moses grandchildrengrandmotherthinking People should take time to be happy. Grandma Moses shouldjoypeople 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-daydoneyesterday 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-downskypeople Life is what you make it. Grandma Moses wisdomlife-is Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. Grandma Moses importantbusymemories 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 paintingbusinessyears I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. Grandma Moses help-mewaitinghelping If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Grandma Moses paintwould-bepeople A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. Grandma Moses primitiveartisticartist 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 biblicalbibleyears 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 childhoodyesterdayyears Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses makewillalwayslife Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. Grandma Moses thingpaintingimportantbusy
