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Grandma Moses
7 quotes
“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.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Time magazine, Vol. 52 (1948)
“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.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in her obituary in The New York Times (14 December 1961)
“Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in New Leaves (1986) by Louise Matteoni
“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.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Tampa Bay Magazine (January/February 2008), p. 205
“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Grandma Moses, American Primitive : Forty Paintings (1947) by Otto Kallir
“If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Grandma Moses, American Primitive : Forty Paintings (1947) by Otto Kallir
“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. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source