"I paint from the top down. From the……" — 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 people."
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15 Quotes by Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses has 15 quotes on this site.
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Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
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Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother…
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I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But…
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I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how…
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I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life…
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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.
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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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A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other…
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If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees,…
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
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More Cattle Quotes
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon…
— Mark Bittman
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I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was -…
— Dave Brubeck
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you"
— Lil Wayne
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories…
— Winston Churchill
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
— Wilfred Owen
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Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness,…
— Charles Wesley
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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