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Explore our hand-picked selection of 18 inspiring quotes by Grandma Moses.

About Grandma Moses

  • Born: September 7, 1860
  • Died: December 13, 1961
  • Occupation: Artist
    • 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 well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
    Bible Biblical Years
    I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as i have thought of it, as i remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.
    Years Yesterday Childhood
    If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
    People Would Be Paint
    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 have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.
    Business Years Painting
    Memory is a painter. paintin's not important. the important thing is keepin' busy.
    Memories Important Busy
    A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
    Artist Artistic Primitive
    I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.
    Waiting Helping Help Me
    If i hadn't started painting, i would have raised chickens.
    Memorable Painting Chickens
    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.
    Top Down Sky People
    Even now / i am not old. / i never think of it, and yet / i am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.
    Grandmother Grandchildren Thinking
    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.
    Inspiration Forget Everything People
    Life is what you make it.
    Wisdom Life Is
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