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Grandma Moses was a renowned American painter, born on September 7, 1860, in New York State, and passed away on December 13, 1961. Her works are known for their unique style and depiction of American rural life.

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Famous Grandma Moses Quotes

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

Art Painting Chickens

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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.”

Years Business Talent Painting Remarkable Propositions Advise

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“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.”

People Knows Inspiration Used Forget Know How Painting Paint Used To Be Forget Everything

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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.”

Feels Looks Littles Made Done Today Written Yesterday Satisfied Working It Good Day

Book:Grandma Moses: My Life's History

Source: Grandma Moses: My Life's History

“People should take time to be happy.”

People Should Joy Take Time

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“Life is what you make it.”

Wisdom Life Is

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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.”

Knows Years Wells Two Might Happens Thousand Bible Paint Biblical Thousand Years

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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.”

Want Paint Leading Me

Book:Grandma Moses: An American Original

Source: Grandma Moses: An American Original

“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.”

Years Littles Today Remember Written Childhood Yesterday Through The Years

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

Helping Waiting Help Me Chairs Rocking Chairs

Book:Grandma Moses: My Life's History

Source: Grandma Moses: My Life's History

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

Life Looks Done Work Positive Satisfied Painter Life Changing Live By Working It Good Life Bad Ass Good Day Well Done Life Well Lived Job Well Done

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

People Ifs Knows Wells Would Be Paint Chickens Better Off

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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.”

Looks Today Past Memories Brain Strange Tomorrow Paint Painter Backwards Our Memories Strange Things History And Memory

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

Ifs Painting Raised Memorable Chickens

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

Artist Sells Artistic Primitive

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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.”

People House Sky Mountain Paint Hills Cattle Top Down

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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.”

Looks Different Sometimes Eye Imagine Tree Color Ready Scene Shadow Window Paint

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

Important Memories Important Things Busy Painter

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

Thinking Grandmother Grandparent Grandchildren Eleven

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About the Author

Born: September 7, 1860
Died: December 13, 1961
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 19

Books & Sources

Grandma Moses: My Life's HistoryRelated source material

Grandma Moses: An American OriginalRelated source material

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