"I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then……" — Grandma Moses
"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 will know how we used to live."
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15 Quotes by Grandma Moses
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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 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 paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the…
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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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