Grandma Moses Quotes

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Life is what you make it. Always has been. Always will be.

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

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. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

People always say that it's too late. However, in fact, now is the best appropriate time. For a man who really wants to seek for something, every period of life is younger and timely.

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

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.

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.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.