Grandma Moses Quotes (14+)

Enjoy the best Grandma Moses Quotes. Quotations by Grandma Moses (American Folk Artist)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

What's the use of painting a picture if it isn't something nice?

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

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains.

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

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything except how things used to be.

People should take time to be happy.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward.

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

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

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

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

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

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Grandma Moses (1860–1961) was an American folk artist who began her celebrated painting career in her late 70s, becoming a symbol of late-blooming creativity.