Grandma Moses

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”

“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“I think real hard till I think of something to paint.”

“Anyone can paint.”

“I tell my story in paint.”

“Memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.”

“What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward.”

“I paint right from the heart, from memory.”

“I like to paint old-timey things, things that I know about.”