Grandma Moses Quotes

• Miro atrás y veo mi vida como un buen día de trabajo, se hizo y estoy satisfecho con él.

  Abuela Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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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.

  Abuela Moses

  Memories, Past, Brain

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• People should take time to be happy.

  Abuela Moses

  People, Joy, Should

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Eye, Color, Tree

  "TIME", Vol. 52, 1948.

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• Life is what you make it.

  Abuela Moses

  Wisdom, Life Is

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• I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

  Abuela Moses

  Want, Paint, Leading Me

  William C. Ketchum, Moses (Grandma) (1996). “Grandma Moses: An American Original”, Smithmark Publishers

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• Me viene una inspiración y me pongo a pintar; luego lo olvido todo, todo menos cómo eran las cosas antes y cómo pintarlas para que la gente sepa cómo vivíamos antes.

  Abuela Moses

  Inspiration, Forget Everything, People

  "Grandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist 'Just Wore Out'". The New York Times Obituary, archive.nytimes.com. December 14, 1961.

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Top Down, Sky, People

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

  Abuela Moses

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Thinking

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

  Abuela Moses

  Memorable, Painting, Chickens

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

  Abuela Moses

  Waiting, Helping, Help Me

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

  Abuela Moses

  Artist, Artistic, Primitive

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

  Abuela Moses

  Memories, Important, Busy

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• If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

  Abuela Moses

  People, Would Be, Paint

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Business, Years, Painting

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Years, Yesterday, Childhood

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• 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.

  Abuela Moses

  Biblia, Bíblica, Años

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