Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Meaning of the quote
Your life is what you choose to make of it. It has always been this way, and it will continue to be so in the future. The choices you make shape your life, so it's up to you to create the kind of life you want to live.
About Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses, whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, was an American folk artist who didn’t start painting until the age of 78. Despite her advanced age, she gained immense popularity in the 1950s, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine and having a biographical documentary made about her. Her simple, nostalgic paintings of rural life captivated many and she was awarded two honorary doctoral degrees for her work.
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If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens.
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Painting’s not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
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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.
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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.
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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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American artist (1860-1961)
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American artist (1860-1961)
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.
American artist (1860-1961)
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
American artist (1860-1961)