Forget Quote by Grandma Moses

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…

— Grandma Moses

People should take time to be happy.

— Grandma Moses

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…

— Grandma Moses

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…

— Grandma Moses

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

— Grandma Moses

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…

— Grandma Moses

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

— Grandma Moses

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

— Grandma Moses

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get…

— Grandma Moses

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

— Grandma Moses

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the…

— Grandma Moses

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

— Grandma Moses