Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Grandma Moses

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold worldwide, including in museums, and have been merchandised such as on greeting cards. Sugaring Off was sold for US$1.2 million in 2006.

American - Artist | September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961

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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.

Grandma Moses

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Grandma Moses

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Grandma Moses

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

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.

Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Grandma Moses

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

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

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.

Grandma Moses

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

Grandma Moses

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Grandma Moses

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.

Grandma Moses

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

Grandma Moses

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

Grandma Moses

People should take time to be happy.

Grandma Moses

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

Grandma Moses

Life is what you make it.

Grandma Moses

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.

Grandma Moses

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.

Grandma Moses

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Grandma Moses

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