Grandma Moses famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Life #Good Day #Bad Ass
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
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
-- Grandma Moses

#People #Would Be #Paint
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
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
-- Grandma Moses

#Memorable #Painting #Chickens
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
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
Life is what you make it.
-- Grandma Moses

#Wisdom #Life Is
People should take time to be happy.
-- Grandma Moses

#People #Joy #Should
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
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
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 #People #Painting
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 #Looks
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
-- Grandma Moses

#Memories #Important #Busy
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

#Sky #People #House
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
-- Grandma Moses

#Artist #Artistic #Primitive
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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