A Quote by Grandma Moses

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

Grandma Moses

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Busy Important Important Thing Keeping Painting Thing

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Grandma Moses
American - Artist
September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Janne Teller

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

Grandma Moses

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.

Gilbert Baker

I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.

Kanye West

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

Moses

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the knockout stage.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.

James McAvoy

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Eric Hoffer

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.

Simon Doonan

Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.

Bashar al-Assad

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.

Frank Stella

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

Leon Black

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chita Rivera

It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.