“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.” PeopleKnowsInspirationUsedForgetKnow HowPaintingPaintUsed To BeForget Everything Author:Grandma Moses
“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.” KnowsYearsWellsTwoMightHappensThousandBiblePaintBiblicalThousand Years Author:Grandma Moses
“I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.” WantPaintLeading Me Book:Grandma Moses: An American Original Source: Grandma Moses: An American Original
“If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsWould BePaintChickensBetter Off Author:Grandma Moses
“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.” LooksTodayPastMemoriesBrainStrangeTomorrowPaintPainterBackwardsOur MemoriesStrange ThingsHistory And Memory Author:Grandma Moses
“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.” PeopleHouseSkyMountainPaintHillsCattleTop Down Author:Grandma Moses
“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.” LooksDifferentSometimesEyeImagineTreeColorReadySceneShadowWindowPaint Author:Grandma Moses
