Grandma Moses Quotes

"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
(Related: History, Hope, Day, Memory, Past, Today, Tomorrow)

"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: 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
(Related: Eyes, Shadows, Trees)

"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
(Related: People, Houses, Mountains, Sky)

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: People)

"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: Painting)

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: Life, Will)

"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: Painting)