"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work…" — Grandma Moses

"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."

— Grandma Moses

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15 Quotes by Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But…
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how…
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life…
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…
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…
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees,…
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

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More Amateur Quotes

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer… — Unknown Author
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has… — Brooks Atkinson
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development… — Marshall McLuhan
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who… — Alfred Stieglitz

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