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Grandma Moses
American
Artist
About the author
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Work
#Artist
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Hope
#Day
#Past
#Today
#History
#Memory
#Tomorrow
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Life
#Work
#Day
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Eyes
#Trees
#Shadows
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.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#People
#Mountains
#Houses
#Sky
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#People
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Painting
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Life
#Will
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses,
American
Artist
#Painting