Grandma Moses Quotations

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.

Life is what you make it.

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

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.

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.

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

People should take time to be happy.

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.

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.