13 Quotes & Sayings By Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses (1900-1990) is one of the most beloved and influential American artists of the twentieth century. A part-time illustrator, painter, and sculptor, her work includes signed lithographs and paintings for major corporations and magazines. She was the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography, Grandma Moses: I Remember. Her most famous paintings depict life in small-town America Read more

And life is what we make it. Always has been,...
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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. Grandma Moses
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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. Grandma Moses
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If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens. Grandma Moses
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I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses
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Life is what we make it always has been always will be. Grandma Moses
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I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people. Grandma Moses
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I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses
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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
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If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Grandma Moses
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses