Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. Grandma Moses More Quotes by Grandma Moses More Quotes From 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 work positive life 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 brain memories past 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 color eye tree 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 forget-everything inspiration people 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 leading-me paint want Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. Grandma Moses grandchildren grandmother thinking People should take time to be happy. Grandma Moses should joy people 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 good-day done yesterday 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 top-down sky people Life is what you make it. Grandma Moses wisdom life-is Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. Grandma Moses important busy memories If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. Grandma Moses painting chickens memorable 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 painting business years I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. Grandma Moses help-me waiting helping If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Grandma Moses paint would-be people A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. Grandma Moses primitive artistic artist 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 biblical bible years 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 childhood yesterday years Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses make will always life
