Grandma Moses Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

People should take time to be happy.

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.

Life is what you make it.

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

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.

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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

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

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.

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

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

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

Life is what we make it always has been always will be.

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

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

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

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

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