Grandma Moses Quotes

• Paintin’s not important. What’s important is keepin’ busy.

  Grandma Moses

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• Painting’s not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

  Grandma Moses

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Grandma Moses

• 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.

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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Birth:	7th September, 1860
Death:	13th December, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist

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Grandma Moses was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses," and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses," the press eagerly dubbed her "Grandma Moses," and the nickname stuck. LIFE magazine celebrated her 100th birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960 cover.

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