Grandma Moses Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, 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.

. . . daydreams, as it were . . . 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.

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

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.