"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."

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

Grandma Moses

#Artist Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Primitive Quotes

“Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”
“I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.”
“One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.”
“In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.”
“The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.”
“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.”
“Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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