Grandma Moses Quotes

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• Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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.
• 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…
• If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
• 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.
• 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…
• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
• Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been made.…
• Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

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